biography
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Donleavy, J(ames) P(atrick)
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| lived:
| (1926– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in New York City, USA. He served in the US Navy during World War 2, then studied microbiology at Dublin, and became a friend of Brendan Behan. His first novel, The Ginger Man (1955) was hailed as a comic masterpiece. Among his other works are A Singular Man (1963), The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B (1968), The Onion Eaters (1971), Leila (1983), Are you Listening, Rabbi Low? (1987), and That Darcy, That Dancer, That Gentleman (1990). Later novels include The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms (1997) and Wrong Information is Being Given Out at Princeton (1997). He has been an Irish citizen since 1967, and published J P Donleavy's Ireland in 1986. |
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