LC control no. | n 79054478 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PS3531.U426 |
Personal name heading | Purdy, James, 1914-2009 |
Biography/History note | b. 1923. |
Birth date | 1914 |
Death date | 2009-03-13 |
Found in | His Don't call me by my right name, 1956. New York times WWW site, Mar. 13, 2009 (James Purdy; d. Friday morning [Mar. 13, 2009], Englewood, N.J., aged 94; his dark, often savagely comic fiction evoked a psychic American landscape of deluded innocence, sexual obsession, violence, and isolation; frequently described as having been born in 1923, but in fact born in 1914) |