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	University of Delaware: JAMES PURDY MANUSCRIPTS
		Born in Ohio on July 17, 1923, James Purdy is one of the United States' most prolific, yet little known writers.
		Purdy is also the author of several collections of short stories, and many of his plays have been performed in various theaters off-Broadway.
		Purdy is also the recipient of a Rockefeller grant, a Ford Foundation Grant (1961), and a P.E.N.-Faulkner Award nomination in 1985 for On Glory's Course.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/purdy.htm (665 words)

	James Purdy Criticism
		[Purdy's] originality and extraordinary talents cannot be neatly inventoried and … to portray him as the author of an eccentric body of fiction, as a part of some movement or fashionable literary trend, or as a novelist who essentially mocks the capacities of art, is to deny the complexities of his individual voice.
		James Purdy began to make his reputation with some stories first successfully published in England, where the praise for him had that overripe odor that characterizes a peculiar subdepartment of British enthusiasm for minor American writers….
		Purdy, like Kafka, tells dreams which turn out to be stories and at the same time retain their fretful, oppressive...
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/James_Purdy (1192 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Purdy, James
		James Purdy's novels often describe obsessive love between men for whom homosexuality is unthinkable and whose fate is inevitably bleak.
		Purdy has always been isolated from the literary establishment, largely because his works are unusual thematically and stylistically and because he has been a savage social critic.
		Purdy's protagonists are usually people who have not found love in their families and who can find no home in the cities in which they live.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/purdy_j.html (1069 words)

	ESSAY; James Purdy: The Novelist as Outlaw - New York Times
		He is called James Purdy.'' I pleaded ignorance, but I did know that Edith, for all her swirling costumes and domino-size jade rings, had a sharp eye for literary genius, if not always for talent.
		James Purdy, who should one day be placed alongside William Faulkner in the somber Gothic corner of the cemetery of American literature, instead is being routed to lie alongside non-relatives.
		Purdy writes about men who are unable to express their love for other men because homosexuality is unthinkable to them.'' Actually, as Purdy demonstrates, it is quite thinkable to everyone else.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E6DD103AF934A15751C0A9639C8B63 (593 words)

	Ayer - pafg15.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Amy Jane Purdy was born on 5 Jan 1848 and died on 7 Jul 1914.
		James Melbourne Barnes was born on 7 Oct 1850 and died on 28 Sep 1930.
		James Manford Ayer (Thomas Ayer, Nehemiah Ayer, Elijah Ayer, Joseph Ayer, Joseph Ayer, John Ayer, John Ayer, Robert,) was born in 1822 in,, NB.
	home.earthlink.net /~dougayer/ayer/pafg15.htm (1424 words)

	James Purdy Information
		James Otis Purdy (July 17, 1923-) is a noted American novelist, short story-writer, poet, and playwright who since his debut (63: Dream Palace, 1956) has published over a dozen novels, more than half-a-dozen collections of poetry and short fiction, as well as a handful of plays.
		Purdy has been the recipient the Morton Dauwen Zabel Fiction Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1993) and was nominated for the P.E.N.-Faulkner Award for his novel On Glory's Course (1984).
		Purdy was born in Fremont, Ohio and educated at the University of Chicago and the University of Puebla in Mexico.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/James_Purdy (275 words)

	THEPURDYS - pafg07.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Mary PURDY (William, Alice, James, Robert, William) was born in 1836.
		James PURDY (William, William, William, Robert, William) was born in 1840.
		James PURDY (William, James, William, Robert, William) was born in 1835.
	freespace.virgin.net /edwy.harling/thepurdys/pafg07.htm (353 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: James Purdy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although Purdy has had much too extended and substantive a career to be dismissed out of hand, he has not attracted enough sustained or pointed notice to escape being labelled “obscure”, and he has also not produced a singularly controversial novel or play that might have made him a cult figure.
		Purdy's greatest achievement – and the greatest obstacle to his wider success – may be that his work has consistently defied classification.
		Indeed, although Purdy's work includes some of the most garishly gruesome acts of savagery in contemporary fiction, it is the sense of the numbing degradation of daily life, the sense of the monstrous monotony in the endless combinations of damaged psyches and limited possibilities, that provides the most lingering impression of his work.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3666 (695 words)

	Police blamed for ankle cast
		But the latest contact Purdy had with a cop left him with a broken ankle, and he is suing the village because of it.
		James Purdy and his brother, Richard, were charged in August with assaulting a police officer after an argument with a relative in a bar.
		Purdy said he was knocked out, and his brother Richard had the tip of his finger ripped off in a door slammed by police.
	www.recordonline.com /1998/01/01-21-98/ophybr.htm (554 words)

	The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > Essay: James Purdy: The Novelist as Outlaw
		He is called James Purdy.'' I pleaded ignorance, but I did know that Edith, for all her swirling costumes and domino-size jade rings, had a sharp eye for literary genius, if not always for talent.
		Purdy was born and raised in New England's most authentic annex, the Western Reserve, whose crown jewel is the state of Ohio, or, as Dawn Powell once sweepingly put it, ''All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.'' That was then, of course.
		Purdy writes about men who are unable to express their love for other men because homosexuality is unthinkable to them.'' Actually, as Purdy demonstrates, it is quite thinkable to everyone else.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/02/27/books/review/27VIDALL.html?ex=1267160400&en=d521a6d1bddf52db&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt (727 words)

	THEPURDYS - pafg08.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Susanna PURDY (Isaac, James, William, Robert, William) was born in 1844.
		Matilda PURDY (Isaac, James, William, Robert, William) was born in 1850.
		James PURDY (Isaac, James, William, Robert, William) was born in 1860.
	freespace.virgin.net /edwy.harling/thepurdys/pafg08.htm (142 words)

	The Mercantile Library • Jonathan Franzen on James Purdy
		Purdy, in his public utterances, is implacably hostile to American society, in his fiction he directs his attention inward.
		Purdy is a vastly bigger and tougher and more protean figure than his creation Chisholm-he is the author of 46 books of fiction, poetry, and drama-but, as an author, he is palpably driven by the same the same kind of helpless fascination and identification with human suffering.
		Purdy's authorial opinion of himself may be, however much of a son of a bitch he may appear in his public pronouncements, when he sits down to tell a story he somehow checks all of that ego at the door and becomes entirely absorbed in his characters.
	www.mercantilelibrary.org /awards/franzen_purdy.php (1221 words)

	Phoenix Michael Biehn Archive - In A Shallow Grave Press Information Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Purdy was wary since Bowser had no directorial track record but he eventually consented to an adaptation of one of his short stories, Sleep Tight.
		Author JAMES PURDY was born in rural Ohio in 1923.
		Purdy has received numerous awards including two Guggenheims, a Ford Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation grant, a National Academy of Arts and Letters Fellowship, and a William Faulkner PEN nomination in 1985.
	www.michaelbiehn.net /data/articles/shallowgrave/shallowgrave0301.html (4493 words)

	James Purdy - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		James Purdy's novels, dark and delicate, have won him passionate fans such as Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal and John Waters.
		Like his poetry, Purdy's drawings illuminate a stiller deeper aspect of his immense talent.
		Purdy spirals his pencil in free flowing lines forming innocent looking minimal human figures.
	www.antonart.com /bio-purdy.htm (114 words)

	James Purdy
		In 1956, James Purdy published Don't Call Me By My Right Name and Other Stories, and in the years since, he has produced some of the most remarkable stories, novels, and plays in the English language.
		In a Shallow Grave, Purdy's understanding of the horrors of the human heart--and the slim but possible potential for salvation--shines through here in ways that are devastating and sublime.
		The James Purdy Papers were the gift of James Purdy between 1962 and 1973, with the exceptions of Purdy's letters to John Cowper Powys, which are the 1964 gift of Phyllis Playter, and the autographed score of Robert Helps's "The Running Sun," which is the 1972 gift of the composer.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/p/purdy_james.htm (742 words)

	Books: Into the Night (The Boston Phoenix . 10-26-98)
		Purdy is one of those writers whose great works are often called "minor masterpieces." This is something that condescending critics usually say about books that make people deeply uncomfortable, yet are too good to ignore.
		The plot is simple, but Purdy's ability to distill the humor and horror of everyday life consistently startles and disturbs.
		Purdy is unafraid to test the extent to which we will accept his deliberate dislocation of language from feeling.
	weeklywire.com /ww/10-26-98/boston_books_2.html (778 words)

	Ohioana Library Ohio Legacy Series: James Purdy, An Essay by Martin Kich
		In the 1970s and 1980s, Purdy produced a series of novels that are mature in their conception and execution and stand as significant contributions to the literature of the period.
		It turned out that the Purdy novel was not only the most challenging book that I treated in my dissertation, but it also may have provided a center point to the whole enterprise that I didn’t quite recognize or fully appreciate at the time.
		Purdy is most concerned with the state of his characters’ souls - not in a traditionally religious sense but in a fundamentally human, empathetic sense.
	www.ohioana.org /features/legacy/jpurdy.asp (2527 words)

	Review Articles: March 1978
		Henry James is as good a father of the contemporary novel as any other, but he is certainly not the only one; in fact, he had little influence on any of the authors analysed here: Nabokov, Vonnegut, Beckett, Robbe-Grillet.
		After Henry James, Purdy devotes the most time to Nabokov, especially Ada which Purdy sees as SF in the Jamesian mode and consequently discusses for nearly forty pages.
		Purdy's ignorance of his author, other criticism, and science is particularly striking here.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/reviews_pages/r14.htm (1442 words)

	Amazon.com: In a shallow grave: Books: James Purdy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The House of the Solitary Maggot by James Purdy
		James Purdy is one of the best writers in America today, an artist as well as a superb craftsman.
		Purdy handles this portentous material with consummate skill; by relentlessly maintaining the logic of the characters he has created, no matter how improbably, he forces the reader to enter a new dimension.
	www.amazon.com /shallow-grave-James-Purdy/dp/0877951241 (1461 words)

	Van Gundy Family Tree - pafg25 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Margaret Elizabeth PURDY [Parents] was born in Oct 1761 in Cumberland Co, PA. She died on 24 Apr 1840 in Franklinton, Franklin Co, OH.
		James Purdy MCILVAIN was born on 28 Dec 1784.
		Col James PURDY [Parents] was born in 1732 in Fermanagh Co, Ireland.
	www.vangundy.net /familytree/paf/pafg25.htm (3223 words)

	purdy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born in Ohio in 1923 James Purdy is one of the most prolific, yet little known writers.
		In addition to writing, Purdy also has served as an interpreter in Latin America, France, and Spain and he spent a year lecturing in Europe with the USIA.
		Purdy is also the author of several collections of short stories, and many of his plays have been performed in various theaters off-Broadway.
	www.americaohyes.com /pages/purdy.htm (180 words)

	The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Editorials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But the office is in trouble, and James Purdy, who won the Republican primary handily, has the skills to set it right.
		Purdy plans to improve attorney training, optimize investigative resources and make sure the most skilled attorneys are assigned to the most demanding cases.
		Purdy worked as a prosecutor handling appeals and then moved to private practice, gaining respect for his abilities to represent clients zealously yet professionally.
	www.news-journalonline.com /pol/election/2004/publicdefender.htm (392 words)

	purdy
		A truth that Purdy seeks to underscore here -- and one that is central to his fiction -- is that even lives that seem thoroughly banal are far more mysterious, far harder to understand and to explain, than most of us recognize or acknowledge.
		In the end, all that is certain is that Purdy is as profoundly conflicted as ever about the ability of writing to penetrate mystery.
		This is unfortunate, for Purdy is a powerful writer whose work deserves a far wider readership in his own country than it has enjoyed in recent years.
	www.brucebawer.com /purdy.htm (914 words)

	Alibris: James Purdy
		A literary cult hero of major proportions, James Purdy's exquisitely surreal fiction-Tennessee Williams meets William S. Burroughs-has been populated for more than forty years by social outcasts living in crisis and longing for love.
		Purdy's exquisitely surreal fiction has been populated for more than 40 years by social outcasts living in crisis and longing for love.
		Purdy is one of the last surviving, original, post-war pioneers of transgressive fiction -- in line with the Beats, Norman Mailer, Terry Southern, and John Rechy.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/James_Purdy (530 words)

	James Purdy Interview with Don Swaim
		James Purdy, author of In the Hollow of His Hand, In a Shallow Grave, The Candle of Your Eyes and Mourners Below, talks with Don Swaim in about the difficulties of being published, the gothic genre, poetry, living in New York and the literary social circle.
		James Purdy discusses the characters and themes in his book Garments the Living Wear, which takes place in New York city in the 1980s.
		James also discusses growing up in Ohio, the often times cruel responses from critics to his work and his ongoing problems with publishers.
	wiredforbooks.org /jamespurdy (230 words)

	Advocate, The: Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue. - book reviews
		An old woman, Carrie, is trying to come to terms with the death of her daughter, an artist almost as famous for her promiscuity as for her paintings of naked men.
		Purdy is in his mid 70s now, an impeccably polite, nearly dressed man, thin as a rake, with big startled eyes.
		Of course, Purdy has written about the contemporary homosexual experience in a short story collection called The Candles of Your Eyes and in his last novel, Out With the Stars, based on the friendship of composer Virgil Thomson and writer Carl Van Vechten.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_n770/ai_21236445 (880 words)

	Amazon.fr : Livres en anglais: 63: Dream Palace, Selected Stories, 1956-1987 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Purdy (Garments the Living Wear) has an ear for the way real people speak, and his disoriented voice is that of post-World War II America.
		His characters are emotional cripples--from the two narcissistic body builders focused only on their own forms (and the office co-worker who is obsessed with them) to a woman whose drunken confession of hatred of her spouse and herself provokes domestic violence.
		The showpiece of the collection is the title work, Purdy's striking novella, dealing with a writer's fascination with what he perceives to be a boy's wild freedom, and his discovery that the youth's life is even more circumscribed than his own.
	www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/0876858469 (483 words)

	eBay - james purdy, Fiction Books, Books items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In a Shallow Grave by James Purdy (1975) HC/DJ
		The house of the solitary maggot by James Purdy
		NEW - In a Shallow Grave by James Purdy; Gregory Crewds
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	Purdy, James
		Purdy served on the faculty of Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin from 1949-1953, and later worked as an interpreter in Latin America, France, and Spain, and spent 1982 lecturing in Europe with the United States Information Agency.
		Purdy's works were launched in the United States in 1957 in one volume, Color of Darkness: Eleven Stories and a Novella.
		Purdy received a National Institute of Arts and Letters grant in literature in 1958, followed by Guggenheim fellowships in 1958 and again in 1962.
	www.library.rochester.edu /index.cfm?page=3126 (497 words)

	James Wright -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The U.S. poet James Wright wrote about sorrow, salvation, and self-understanding, often drawing on his native Ohio River valley for images of nature and industry.
		James Arlington Wright was born on Dec. 13, 1927, in Martin's Ferry, Ohio.
		The 11th vice-president of the United States was George Mifflin Dallas, who served from 1845 to 1849 in the Democratic administration of James Knox Polk.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9314271 (724 words)

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