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James Leo Herlihy ( / ˈhɜːrləhi /; February 27, 1927 – October 21, 1993) was an American novelist, playwright and actor. Herlihy is known for his novels Midnight Cowboy and All Fall Down, and his play Blue Denim, all of which were adapted for cinema.
Best selling author of Midnight Cowboy, James Leo Herlihy, born in 1927 to a blue collar family in Detroit, Michigan, in 1945 joined the Navy straight out of high school. He did not see combat, and soon began to write short stories.
James Leo Herlihy was born in Detroit in 1927 and raised there and in Chillicothe, Ohio. He lived in New York City, Los Angeles, and, off and on from 1957 to 1973, in Key West, where he became “captivated,” finding it “a wonderful place to work and write.”
Oct 22, 1993 · James Leo Herlihy, a playwright and an actor and the author of the novels "All Fall Down" and "Midnight Cowboy," died yesterday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 66. He...
James Leo Herlihy's Midnight Cowboy was his most important work, with a massively successful movie and an upcoming stage adaptation.
James Leo Herlihy. Writer: Midnight Cowboy. Detroit-born James Leo Herlihy went into the Navy straight from high school in 1945, but the war ended before he got to see any combat.
SEASON OF THE WITCH. You call her Gloria. She calls herself 'Witch' Looking for life in New York's East Village. She finds it... In this major bestseller,Herlihy brings vividly to life the revolution of the permissive society - the world of youth, free love, drugs, and danger.
James Leo Herlihy. Writer: Midnight Cowboy. Detroit-born James Leo Herlihy went into the Navy straight from high school in 1945, but the war ended before he got to see any combat.
James Leo Herlihy was an American novelist, playwright and actor best known for his novel Midnight Cowboy, one of three of his works adapted for cinema. He attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina and was a friend of Tennessee Williams who became his mentor.
Understanding James Leo Herlihy is the first book-length study of one of America's most neglected post–war writers. Herlihy (1927–1993), an occasional acto...
