J. P. Donleavy

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James Patrick Donleavy (born April 23, 1926) is an Irish American author, born in New York City to Irish immigrants. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II after which he moved to Ireland where he studied at Trinity College, Dublin and became an Irish citizen.

Donleavy gained critical acclaim with his first novel, The Ginger Man, which is one of the Modern Library 100 best novels.

[edit] Bibliography

• The Ginger Man (Novel) Olympia Press, Paris 1955
• What They Did in Dublin, with The Ginger Man (Play) MacGibbon & Kee, London 1961
• The Ginger Man (Play) Random House, New York 1961
• Fairy Tales of New York (Play), Penguin, UK 1961 | Random House, New York 1961
• A Singular Man (Novel) Atlantic-Little, Brown, Boston 1963
• Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule (Stories & Sketches) Atlantic-Little, Brown, Boston 1964
• A Singular Man (Play) The Bodley Head, UK 1965
• The Saddest Summer of Samuel S (Novella) Delacorte Press, New York 1966
• The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B (Novel) Delacorte Press, New York 1968
• The Onion Eaters (Novel) Delacorte Press, New York 1971
• The Plays of JP Donleavy Delacorte Press, New York 1972
• A Fairy Tale of New York (Novel) Delacorte Press, New York 1973
• J.P. Donleavy: The Plays Penguin, UK 1974
• The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival & Manners (Nonfiction) Delacorte Press, New York 1975
• The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman (Novel) Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA 1977
• Schultz (Novel) Delacorte Press, New York 1979
• Leila (Novel) Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania 1983
• De Alfonce Tennis... (Novel) Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1984
• J.P. Donleavy's Ireland... (Nonfiction) Viking, NY, 1986 | Michael Joseph, London 1986
• Are You Listening Rabbi Löw (Novel) Viking, London 1987
• A Singular Country (Nonfiction) Peterborough - Ryan, UK 1989
• That Darcy, That Dancer, That Gentleman (Novel) Viking, London 1990
• The History of the Ginger Man (Nonfiction) Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1994 | Viking, London 1994
• The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms (Novella) Thornwillow Press, US 1995
• An Author and His Image (Collected Short Pieces-Nonfiction) Viking, London 1997
• Wrong Information is Being Given Out at Princeton (Novel) Thomas Dunn-St. Martins Press, New York| Viking, London 1998

[edit] External links

• JPDonleavyCompendium.org
• 1988 Audio Interview with J. P. Donleavy - RealAudio
• The Paris Review Art of Fiction interview, no. 53