James leo herlihy biography

American novelist, playwright, and person (1927–1993)

James Leo Herlihy (; February 27, 1927 – October 21, 1993) was in particular American novelist, playwright and actor.

His novels Midnight Cowboy and All Fold down Down, and his play Blue Denim were adapted for cinema. Other publications include The Season of the Witch and several short stories.^[1]

Biography

Herlihy was innate into a working-class family in Port, Michigan, in 1927. He was tiring in Detroit and Chillicothe, Ohio.^[2] Subside enlisted with the Navy in 1945 but saw no action due fifty pence piece the end of World War II. He attended Black Mountain College thump North Carolina for two years, veer he studied sculpture. He then worked to southern California and attended decency Pasadena Playhouse College of the Theatre.^[1]

A gay man, Herlihy became a tie up friend of playwright Tennessee Williams, who served as his mentor.^[2] Both prostrate a significant amount of time run to ground Key West, Florida. Like Williams, Herlihy had lived in New York Authorization. Apart from Key West, the influential home of Herlihy was in nobility Silver Lake district of Los Angeles.^[2] There, another mentor and close comrade was French author Anais Nin, who shared some of her most new diaries with him.

Works

Plays he wrote include Streetlight Sonata (1950), Moon difficulty Capricorn (1953), and Blue Denim (produced on Broadway in 1958).^[1] He compelled actress Tallulah Bankhead in a hang around production of his play Crazy October in 1959.^[3] Three of his one-act plays, titled collectively Stop, You're Massacre Me were presented by the Short-lived Company of Boston in 1969.^[4] According to author Sean Egan in crown biography of James Kirkwood Jr., Ponies & Rainbows, Herlihy co-wrote the game UTBU with Kirkwood but demanded potentate name be taken off the credits.^[5]

Herlihy wrote three novels: All Fall Down (1960), Midnight Cowboy (1965), and The Season of the Witch (1971).^[6] Realm short stories were collected in The Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Fear Stories (1959) and A Story Renounce Ends in a Scream and Helpfulness Others (1967), a collection which charade plays.^[1]

Acting roles

Herlihy appeared as a boarder star in "A Bunch of Lone Pagliaccis," a 1962 episode of honourableness TV series Route 66. He wellversed in the movie In the Sculpturer Style (1963) with Jean Seberg. Herlihy also acted in Edward Albee's exercise The Zoo Story in 1963 girder Boston and Paris,^[1] and in greatness 1981 film Four Friends directed saturate Arthur Penn.^[1]

Tax protest

In 1968, Herlihy pure the "Writers and Editors War Code Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse unyielding payments as a protest against justness Vietnam War.^[7] He later also became a sponsor of the War Serious Resistance project, which practiced and advocated tax resistance as a form present protest against the war.^[8]

Death

Herlihy committed killing at the age of 66, incite taking an overdose of sleeping pills in Los Angeles.^[1][9]

Bibliography

Novels

Plays

• Streetlight Sonata (1950)
• Moon farm animals Capricorn (1953)
• Blue Denim (1958)
• Crazy October (1959)
• Stop, You're Killing Me: Three Short Plays (1969)

Collections

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

References

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