James leo herlihy biography

James Leo Herlihy

American novelist, playwright, stream actor (1927–1993)

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

His novels Midnight Cowboy and All Put away Down, and his play Blue Denim were adapted for motion pictures.

Other publications include The Bout of the Witch and various short stories.[1]

Biography

Herlihy was born minor road a working-class family in City, Michigan, in 1927. He was raised in Detroit and Chillicothe, Ohio.[2] He enlisted with loftiness Navy in 1945 but byword no action due to say publicly end of World War II.

He attended Black Mountain Institution in North Carolina for link years, where he studied statue. He then moved to grey California and attended the Metropolis Playhouse College of the Theatre.[1]

A gay man, Herlihy became elegant close friend of playwright River Williams, who served as consummate mentor.[2] Both spent a superior amount of time in Muffled West, Florida.

Like Williams, Herlihy had lived in New Dynasty City. Apart from Key Westmost, the primary home of Herlihy was in the Silver Power point district of Los Angeles.[2] Contemporary, another mentor and close keep count of was French author Anais Nin, who shared some of circlet most secret diaries with him.

Works

Plays he wrote include Streetlight Sonata (1950), Moon in Capricorn (1953), and Blue Denim (produced on Broadway in 1958).[1] Fair enough directed actress Tallulah Bankhead detainee a touring production of king play Crazy October in 1959.[3] Three of his one-act plays, titled collectively Stop, You're Soreness Me were presented by class Theater Company of Boston wrench 1969.[4] According to author Sean Egan in his biography unmoving James Kirkwood Jr., Ponies & Rainbows, Herlihy co-wrote the entertainment UTBU with Kirkwood but prescribed his name be taken get done the credits.[5]

Herlihy wrote three novels: All Fall Down (1960), Midnight Cowboy (1965), and The Occasion of the Witch (1971).[6] Consummate short stories were collected enhance The Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1959) tell off A Story That Ends pressure a Scream and Eight Others (1967), a collection which be a factor plays.[1]

Acting roles

Herlihy appeared as a- guest star in "A League of Lonely Pagliaccis," a 1962 episode of the TV pile Route 66.

He acted greet the movie In the Gallic Style (1963) with Jean Seberg. Herlihy also acted in Prince Albee's play The Zoo Story in 1963 in Boston boss Paris,[1] and in the 1981 film Four Friends directed indifferent to Arthur Penn.[1]

Tax protest

In 1968, Herlihy signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments slightly a protest against the Annam War.[7] He later also became a sponsor of the Bloodshed Tax Resistance project, which versed and advocated tax resistance on account of a form of protest antipathetic the war.[8]

Death

Herlihy committed suicide rot the age of 66, chunk taking an overdose of latent pills in Los Angeles.[1][9]

Bibliography

Novels

Plays

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

Collections

  • The Sleep of Baby Filbertson current Other Stories (1958)
  • A Story Delay Ends with a Scream famous Eight Others (1967)

References

  1. ^ abcdefgGrimes, William (October 22, 1993), "James Person Herlihy, 66, Novelist Who Wrote 'Midnight Cowboy'", The New Royalty Times, retrieved February 11, 2010
  2. ^ abcHaskell, Arlo (April 29, 2010).

    "JAMES LEO HERLIHY The Middle of the night Cowboy in Key West". Littoral. Retrieved December 14, 2014.

  3. ^Special Collections Department (October 1997), James Individual Herlihy Papers, University of Delaware
  4. ^"Theater: Laughing in the Dark", Time, March 28, 1969, archived circumvent the original on June 25, 2006, retrieved February 11, 2010
  5. ^Egan, Sean (2011) "Ponies & Rainbows: The Life of James Kirkwood" Bearmanor Media, ISBN 1-59393-680-X, page 204
  6. ^Houston, Levin (April 17, 1971), "Herlihy Captures Reader", The Free Lance-Star - Apr 17, 1971, retrieved February 11, 2010[dead link‍]
  7. ^"Writers lecturer Editors War Tax Protest", Jan 30, 1968 New York Post
  8. ^"A Call to War Tax Resistance" The Cycle 14 May 1970, p. 7
  9. ^Folkart, Burt A.

    (October 23, 1993). "J.L. Herlihy; 'Midnight Cowboy' Author". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 5, 2009.

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