James Purdy (1914–2009)
Auteur de Malcolm
A propos de l'auteur
James Purdy was born in Ohio in 1923. After serving in the Army, he attended the University of Puebla in Mexico before receiving an M.A. in Romance languages at the University of Chicago and spending some time at the University of Madrid. He taught at Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin from afficher plus 1949 to 1953. During his lifetime he wrote about 20 novels as well as numerous short stories and plays. Some of his best-known works include the following: Color of Darkness (1957), Malcolm (1959), The Nephew (1960), Cabot Wright Begins (1964), I Am Elijah Thrush (1972), In a Shallow Grave (1976), and Narrow Rooms (1977). He also wrote the Sleepers in Moon-Crowned Valleys trilogy, which comprised of Jeremy's Version (1970), The House of the Solitary Maggot (1974), and Mourners Below (1981). He died on March 13, 2009 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-103693 DLC
Séries
Œuvres de James Purdy
Quello che ho da dirvi: Autoritratto delle ragazze e dei ragazzi italiani (Einaudi tascabili) (Italian Edition) (1998) 5 exemplaires
El papa Llop i deu contes més : relats escollits (1956-1987) / James Purdy ; selecció i traducció de Ferran Toutain (1996) 4 exemplaires
Heatstroke 2 exemplaires
La fiamma dei tuoi occhi 2 exemplaires
Color of Darkness, 11 Stories and a Novella / Eustace Chisholm and the Works / Malcolm (1965) 2 exemplaires
Estasi (in La fiamma dei tuoi occhi) 1 exemplaire
Il party di Lily (in La fiamma dei tuoi occhi) 1 exemplaire
Uno di questi giorni (in La fiamma dei tuoi occhi) 1 exemplaire
Un pezzo di carta (in La fiamma dei tuoi occhi) 1 exemplaire
Notizie d'estate (in La fiamma dei tuoi occhi) 1 exemplaire
Mr Evening (in La fiamma dei tuoi occhi) 1 exemplaire
Eustace Chisholm 1 exemplaire
Contraccolpo (in La fiamma dei tuoi occhi) 1 exemplaire
Alba (in La fiamma dei tuoi occhi) 1 exemplaire
Ruthanna Elder (in La fiamma dei tuoi occhi) 1 exemplaire
I Will Arrest the Bird That Has No Light 1 exemplaire
Dormi bene (in La fiamma dei tuoi occhi) 1 exemplaire
Color de oscuridad once relatos y un cuento 1 exemplaire
Mud Toe il cannibale (in La fiamma dei tuoi occhi) 1 exemplaire
Short Papa (in La fiamma dei tuoi occhi) 1 exemplaire
The Blue House (SC) 1 exemplaire
Some of These Days {short story} 1 exemplaire
Don't let the snow fall 1 exemplaire
Are you in the wintertree 1 exemplaire
Reaching Rose 1 exemplaire
The Berry-Picker 1 exemplaire
Dawn: Don't Let the Snow Fall 1 exemplaire
Clearing in the forest 1 exemplaire
The Candles of Your Eyes {short story} 1 exemplaire
Dawn {short story} 1 exemplaire
Les oevres d´Eustace 1 exemplaire
The lesson 1 exemplaire
Color of darkness: including, 63: Dream Palace 1 exemplaire
Malcoll 1 exemplaire
Dream Palace 1 exemplaire
Malcolm - Acting Edition 1 exemplaire
About Jessie May 1 exemplaire
Les enfants, c´est tout 1 exemplaire
Couleur de ténèbres 1 exemplaire
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The Antioch Review: Volume 59, Number 2 (Spring 2001) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom II — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Purdy, James Otis
- Date de naissance
- 1914-07-17
- Date de décès
- 2009-03-13
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Hicksville, Ohio, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Brooklyn Heights, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Fremont, Ohio, USA (birth)
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Études
- University of Chicago
University of Puebla
University of Madrid - Organisations
- Lawrence University
- Prix et distinctions
- Publishing Triangle (Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, 1991)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1958)
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Critiques
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 93
- Aussi par
- 25
- Membres
- 2,418
- Popularité
- #10,602
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 30
- ISBN
- 159
- Langues
- 8
- Favoris
- 11