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- Harold Brodkey, a novelist, short-story writer and essayist known almost as much for his failure to publish as for the books he eventually did publish, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 65. The cause was AIDS, said his wife, Ellen Schwamm.
Harold Brodkey (October 25, 1930 – January 26, 1996), born Aaron Roy Weintraub, was an American short-story writer and novelist.
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Jan 27, 1996 · Harold Brodkey, a novelist, short-story writer and essayist known almost as much for his failure to publish as for the books he eventually did publish, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He...
Some twenty years after his death, Brodkey still awaits that discovery—a curious fate for a writer Harold Bloom once declared “unparalleled in American prose fiction since the death of William Faulkner.”
Jan 26, 1997 · He hated Harold Bloom’s description of him as an American Proust, but it wasn’t undeserved. Read a Brodkey story in the morning, and he will narrate the rest of your day.
Harold Brodkey was a gifted writer who became virtually a caricature of the American rites of celebrity. The ambition endemic in American writers cripples talent as much as nurtures it.
Apr 2, 1994 · This is what happened with Brodkey. He published some celebrated short stories in 1958, and then the wait began. In New York, the gestation of Harold Brodkey's first novel was a famous,...
Harold Brodkey (born Oct. 25, 1930, Staunton, Ill., U.S.—died Jan. 26, 1996, New York, N.Y.) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose near-autobiographical fiction avoids plot, instead concentrating upon careful, close description of feeling.
