James Leo Herlihy

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James Leo Herlihy (27 February 1927 – 21 October 1993) was an American novelist and playwright.

Born to a working class family in Detroit, Michigan, he is best known for his works Midnight Cowboy and Blue Denim.

He also wrote the novel All Fall Down, which was also adapted for the screenplay of the film of the same name. Other works include The Season of the Witch and a number of short stories.

He was an occasional actor (Blue Denim onstage). He committed suicide (an overdose of sleeping pills) in Los Angeles in 1993.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Novels 1.2 Plays 1.3 Collections

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels

• All Fall Down – (1960) (filmed in 1962)
• Midnight Cowboy – (1965) (filmed in 1969)
• The Season of the Witch – (1971)

[edit] Plays

• Streetlight Sonata – (1950)
• Moon in Capricorn – (1953)
• Blue Denim – (1958) (filmed in 1959)
• [Crazy October] – (1959)
• Stop, You’re Killing Me: Three Short Plays – (1969)

[edit] Collections

• The Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories – (1958)
• A Story That Ends with a Scream and Eight Others – (1967)