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Profile of Harold Brodkey
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25th October 1930 |
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Alton, Illinois, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Harold Brodkey (October 25, 1930 – January 26, 1996) was an American author.
Brodkey was born in Staunton, Illinois and raised in University City, Missouri outside St. Louis. After graduating from Harvard University in 1952, Brodkey began his writing career by contributing short stories to The New Yorker and other magazines. His stories have won him two first-place O. Henry Awards. In 1993 Brodkey announced he had contracted AIDS in The New Yorker and later wrote This Wild Darkness about his battle with the disease. At the time of his death in 1996, he was living in New York City with his wife, novelist Ellen Schwamm.
Bibliography
- First Love and Other Sorrows (1954), short stories
- Stories in an Almost Classical Mode (1988), short stories
- The Runaway Soul (1991), novel
- Profane Friendship (1994), novel
- My Venice, memoir
- This Wild Darkness (1996), memoir
- The World is the Home of Love and Death (1997), short stories
- Sea Battles on Dry Land (1999), essays
External Links
- Two audio interviews of Harold Brodkey (1988 and 1992), RealAudio
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