Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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Birth: | 25th October, 1930 |
Death: | 26th January, 1996 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist, Writer |
Harold Brodkey was born in Staunton, Illinois, USA. He was an American short-story writer and novelist. After graduating from Harvard University in 1952, he began his writing career by contributing short stories to The New Yorker and other magazines. His Short-story collections include: First Love and Other Sorrows, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode, and The World Is the Home of Love and Death. He wrote other books include: The Runaway Soul(novel), Profane friendship(novel), This Wild Darkness(memoir), My Venice, and Sea battles on dry land(essays).
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