The author is most famous for his breathtaking conversational skills, his progressively more complex text and for taking 32 years to complete his much anticipated first novel, published in 1991 as The Runaway Soul.īrodkey's career began promisingly with the short-story collection First Love and Other Sorrows, which received widespread critical praise at the time of its 1958 publication. Brodkey contracted the HIV virus from a homosexual relationship, though he reportedly did not consider himself to be gay. At the time of his death in 1996, he was living in New York City with his second wife, novelist Ellen Brodkey (née Schwamm). In 1993 he announced in The New Yorker that he had contracted AIDS he later wrote This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death (1996), about his battle with the disease. Brodkey was a staff writer for The New Yorker until the end of his life. With the aid of his editor, William Maxwell, a childhood friend of his wife, Brodkey began his writing career by contributing short stories to The New Yorker and other magazines. cum laude in 1952, Brodkey married his first wife, Joanna Brown, a Radcliffe graduate and, in 1953 their only child, Ann Emily Brodkey was born. Brodkey would chronicle his life with his adoptive parents and sister in his short stories and his novel, The Runaway Soul.Īfter graduating from Harvard University with an A.B. Doris and Joseph lived in University City, Missouri, with their daughter, Marilyn Ruth Brodkey (1923-2011). When their birth mother Celia died, Samuel Weintraub was four and old enough to remain with his father but Aaron Weintraub, only two years old, was adopted by his father's cousin, Doris Rubenstein Brodkey (1896-1949) and her husband, Joseph Brodkey (1896-1946) and renamed Harold Roy Brodkey.

We must stand for the right of every American to practice their faith according to the dictates of their conscience, whether it be in the public square or in the workplace.Harold Brodkey (Octo– January 26, 1996), born Aaron Roy Weintraub, was an American short-story writer and novelist.īrodkey was the second child born in Staunton, Illinois, to Max Weintraub and Celia Glazer Weintraub (1899-1932) Samuel Weintraub (1928-2017) was their oldest child. I strongly oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

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