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Purdy, James, 1914-2009

LC control no.n 79054478
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3531.U426
Personal name headingPurdy, James, 1914-2009
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Biography/History noteb. 1923.
Birth date1914
Death date2009-03-13
Found inHis 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)