James Purdy (1914–2009)
Autore di Malcolm
Sull'Autore
James Purdy was born in Ohio in 1923. After serving in the Army, he attended the University of Puebla in Mexico before receiving an M.A. in Romance languages at the University of Chicago and spending some time at the University of Madrid. He taught at Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin from mostra altro 1949 to 1953. During his lifetime he wrote about 20 novels as well as numerous short stories and plays. Some of his best-known works include the following: Color of Darkness (1957), Malcolm (1959), The Nephew (1960), Cabot Wright Begins (1964), I Am Elijah Thrush (1972), In a Shallow Grave (1976), and Narrow Rooms (1977). He also wrote the Sleepers in Moon-Crowned Valleys trilogy, which comprised of Jeremy's Version (1970), The House of the Solitary Maggot (1974), and Mourners Below (1981). He died on March 13, 2009 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-103693 DLC
Serie
Opere di James Purdy
Quello che ho da dirvi: Autoritratto delle ragazze e dei ragazzi italiani (Einaudi tascabili) (Italian Edition) (1998) 5 copie
El papa Llop i deu contes més : relats escollits (1956-1987) / James Purdy ; selecció i traducció de Ferran Toutain (1996) 4 copie
La fiamma dei tuoi occhi 2 copie
Heatstroke 2 copie
Color of Darkness, 11 Stories and a Novella / Eustace Chisholm and the Works / Malcolm (1965) 2 copie
Eustace Chisholm 1 copia
Camino de la gloria 1 copia
Clearing in the forest 1 copia
Some of These Days {short story} 1 copia
Don't let the snow fall 1 copia
Are you in the wintertree 1 copia
Reaching Rose 1 copia
The Berry-Picker 1 copia
Dawn: Don't Let the Snow Fall 1 copia
The Blue House (SC) 1 copia
Dawn {short story} 1 copia
Les oevres d´Eustace 1 copia
The lesson 1 copia
Malcoll 1 copia
Dream Palace 1 copia
Malcolm - Acting Edition 1 copia
About Jessie May 1 copia
Les enfants, c´est tout 1 copia
Couleur de ténèbres 1 copia
Opere correlate
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Collaboratore — 452 copie
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Collaboratore — 37 copie
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Collaboratore — 3 copie
The Antioch Review: Volume 59, Number 2 (Spring 2001) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom II — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Purdy, James Otis
- Data di nascita
- 1914-07-17
- Data di morte
- 2009-03-13
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Hicksville, Ohio, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Brooklyn Heights, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Fremont, Ohio, USA (birth)
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Istruzione
- University of Chicago
University of Puebla
University of Madrid - Organizzazioni
- Lawrence University
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Publishing Triangle (Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, 1991)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1958)
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 94
- Opere correlate
- 25
- Utenti
- 2,424
- Popolarità
- #10,583
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 30
- ISBN
- 159
- Lingue
- 8
- Preferito da
- 11