Harold Brodkey (1930–1996)
Author of Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
About the Author
Harold Brodkey was a novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. He was born in Alton, Illinois, in 1930. He graduated from Harvard University. Brodkey worked briefly as a page at NBC before a story he had shown to an editor at The New Yorker was published in 1953. His first short-story collection show more "First Love and Other Stories" was published in 1958. Brodkey was also a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker. He became legendary for a novel that he spent much of his adult life writing with parts being published in his 1988 short-story collection, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode before it was finally published as The Runaway Soul. In 1993, Brodkey announced to the readers of The New Yorker that he had AIDS. He chronicled his illness in a diary that was published in The New Yorker. Harold Brodkey died on January 26, 1996. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Artist: Howard Coale for The New Yorker, 1995
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Works by Harold Brodkey
Innocence 3 copies
Brodkey Harold 1 copy
Avedon Photographs 1947-1977 1 copy
Spring Fugue 1 copy
The State of Grace 1 copy
Associated Works
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contributor — 187 copies, 1 review
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributor — 137 copies, 1 review
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contributor — 73 copies
Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1994) — Contributor — 54 copies, 1 review
The Literary Lover: Great Stories of Passion and Romance (1993) — Contributor — 52 copies, 2 reviews
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- Canonical name
- Brodkey, Harold
- Other names
- Weintraub, Aaron Roy
- Birthdate
- 1930-10-25
- Date of death
- 1996-01-26
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Staunton, Illinois, USA
- Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
Venice, Italy - Education
- Harvard University (BA, 1952)
- Occupations
- Staff Writer (1987 -)
- Relationships
- Schwamm, Ellen (wife)
- Organizations
- The New Yorker
- Awards and honors
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
National Adademy in Rome Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship - Short biography
- HAROLD BRODKEY is the author of the novel The Runaway Soul, several collections of stories: First Love and Other Sorrows, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode, and The World Is the Home of Love and Death; travel writing: My Venice; essays: Sea Battles on Dry Land, and a memoir of his experience with AIDS, This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death. His many honors include two first-place O. Henry Prizes as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Adademy in Rome, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lived in New York City with his wife, the novelist Ellen Schwamm, until his death in 1996.
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