Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.
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It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.
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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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