Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.
Harold Brodkey Quotes
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
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| Birth: | 25th October, 1930 |
| Death: | 26th January, 1996 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Novelist, Writer |
About
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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