The Irish writer and playwright James Patrick Donleavy was born in New York in April 1926, the son of James Patrick and Margaret Donleavy who emigrated from Ireland to New York. He was educated at Trinity College in Dublin between 1946 and 1949. He married Valerie Heron and in 1967 became an Irish citizen. While married to Valerie he resided in Kilcoole near Donerea House. While living in Kilcoole his mother bought a house on Marine Road in Greystones named Carriglea, where she resided for many years. The house is still owned by the Donleavy family today. He remarried in 1970 to Mary Wilson Price an actress and had two children. He died on the 11th of September 2017 and was then a resident of Westmeath.
Noted works include The Ginger Man, The Unexpurgated Code, a complete manual of survival and manners , as well as the short novel Wrong Information Is Being Given out at Princeton. Other works include The saddest Summer of Samuel S (1966), The Onion Eaters (1971), and A Fairy Tale of New York (1973).
Bibliography
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Dictionary of Irish literature, Greenwood Press, Westport Conn., 1979.
Ousby, Ian (editor) The Wordsworth Companion to Literature in English, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992.
Owens, Cóilín; Radner, Joan Newlon Irish drama, 1900-1980, Catholic University of America Press, Washington DC, 1990.
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