LC control no. | n 79133705 |
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LC classification | PR6062.E7 |
Personal name heading | Leonard, Hugh |
Variant(s) | Byrne, John Keyes |
Birth date | 19261109 |
Found in | His Stephen D., 1964. New York times WWW site, Feb. 13, 2009 (in obituary published Feb. 12: Hugh Leonard; b. John Joseph Byrne, Nov. 9, 1926, Dublin; given up for adoption, he grew up in the Keys family in Dalkey and assumed the name John Keyes Byrne (why he changed the spelling of their name is a mystery, according to his daughter); later adopted the pen name Hugh Leonard; d. Thursday [Feb. 12, 2009], Dublin, aged 82; prolific Irish playwright, memoirist, travel writer, and dyspeptic newspaper columnist whose autobiographical play Da won four Tony Awards in 1978) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 11/9/26) |