Writing
James Purdy
Born — Died
1914-07-17 — 2009-03-13
Place of birth
Hicksville, Ohio, USA
Known for
Writing
Credits
1 titles
James Otis Purdy (July 17, 1914 – March 13, 2009) was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright who, from his debut in 1956, published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages and in 2013 his short stories were collected in The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy. He has been praised by writers such as Edward Albee, James M. Cain, Lillian Hellman, Francis King, Marianne Moore, Dorothy Parker, Dame Edith Sitwell, Terry Southern, Gore Vidal (who described Purdy as 'an authentic American genius'), Jonathan Franzen (who called him, in Farther Away, "one of the most undervalued a…
