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. Correctly or incorrectly, his initial works are sometimes grouped with the Kitchen Sink artists as well as the Angry young men.

1 Bibliography
2 Personal Life
3 References
4 External links

[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] Personal Life

Lives at Levington Park, a country house on 200 acres directly on Louge Owel, near the town of Mullingar -- in the Irish Midlands ^[1].

Educated: Various schools in US; 1946-49 Trinity College, Dublin.

Married Valerie Heron in 1946 Valerie Heron, (two children '51 Philip, '55 Karen)divorced in 1969. Donleavy married again in 1970 to Mary Wilson Price (two children '79 Rebecca and Rory) and divorced in 1989 ^[1].