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March 13, 2009 (94 years old)
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Cancer
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Celebrities born on July 17
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James Purdy
James Otis Purdy is an American novelist, writer, poet and playwright who, since his debut in 1956, has published more than a dozen novels and collections of poems, short stories and plays. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages ​​and in 2013 his short stories were collected in James Purdy's Collection of Short Stories. He is hailed by writers as diverse as Edward Albee, James M. Cain, Lillian Hellman, Francis King, Marianne Moore, Dorothy Parker, Dame Edith Sitwell, Terry Southern, Gore Vidal, Jonathan Franzen, AN Wilson, as well as Jane Bowles and Paul Bowles. Purdy received the Morton Dauwen Zabel Fiction Award from the American Academy of Arts and Literature and was nominated for the 1985 PEN / Faulkner Prize for her novel On Glory's Course. In addition, he won two Guggenheim Fellowships and Grants from the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
BornJames Otis Purdy, July 17, 1914, Hicksville, Ohio, U.S.
DiedMarch 13, 2009, Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationNovelist, poet, playwright
NationalityUnited States
GenreDrama, poetry, fictional prose

About James Purdy

Novelist James Purdy was born in Ohio, United States on July 17, 1914. He dies at the age of 94, on March 13, 2009.

He was a twentieth-century American fiction writer who authored over a dozen books and was a PEN/Faulkner Award nominee in 1985. His controversial works, such as Eustace Chisholm, Color of Darkness & Malcolm, and Garments the Living Wear, generally center on the lives of social outcasts and members of minority groups.

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James Purdy before becoming famous

James Purdy was born in the Zodiac sign Cancer (The Crab), and 1914 is also the year of Tiger (兎) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He got a master's degree in English from the University of Chicago after teaching French at Greenbriar Military School in West Virginia.

Achievement of James Purdy

Purdy, according to Jonathan Franzen, is one of America's most underappreciated writers.

James Purdy's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He was born and raised in Ohio. Later in life, he married Marian Andreas.

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Purdy's literary work was complimented by Poet Dorothy Parker.

Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967) (Poet)
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)

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James Purdy Income & Net worth

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