biography
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Brodkey, Harold (Roy)
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originally Aaron Roy Weintraub
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1930–96)
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| biography:
| Novelist and short story writer, born in Staunton, Illinois, USA. He studied at Harvard University, and joined the New Yorker in 1987. The short stories he wrote for the magazine were collected in First Love and Other Sorrows (1957). An adolescent prodigy, he went on to develop a reputation as an outstanding writer, ranked by some alongside Milton and Wordsworth. His long-awaited autobiographical novel, The Runaway Soul (1991), was compared to Marcel Proust's Remembrance of things Past, though it was criticized by some for its difficult prose. |
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