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American novelist, playwright, and actor (1927–1993)
James Leo Herlihy (; February 27, 1927 – October 21, 1993) was an American novelist , playwright and actor.
Herlihy is known for his novels Midnight Cowboy All Fall Down Blue Denim The Season of the Witch short stories .[1]
Biography
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Herlihy was born into a working-class family in Detroit , Michigan , in 1927. He was raised in Detroit and Chillicothe, Ohio .[2] World War II . He attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina for two years, where he studied sculpture. He then moved to southern California and attended the Pasadena Playhouse College of the Theatre.[1]
A gay man, Herlihy became a close friend of playwright Tennessee Williams , who served as his mentor.[2] Key West, Florida . Like Williams, Herlihy had lived in New York City. Apart from Key West, the primary home of Herlihy was in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles .[2] Anais Nin , who shared some of her most secret diaries with him.
Works
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Plays he wrote include Streetlight Sonata (1950), Moon in Capricorn (1953), and Blue Denim Broadway in 1958).[1] Tallulah Bankhead in a touring production of his play Crazy October in 1959.[3] Stop, You're Killing Me were presented by the Theater Company of Boston in 1969.[4] James Kirkwood Jr. , Ponies & Rainbows , Herlihy co-wrote the play UTBU with Kirkwood but demanded his name be taken off the credits.[5]
Herlihy wrote three novels: All Fall Down Midnight Cowboy The Season of the Witch [6] The Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1959) and A Story That Ends in a Scream and Eight Others (1967), a collection which included plays.[1]
Acting roles
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Herlihy appeared as a guest star in "A Bunch of Lonely Pagliaccis," a 1962 episode of the TV series Route 66 In the French Style Jean Seberg . Herlihy also acted in Edward Albee 's play The Zoo Story [1] Four Friends Arthur Penn .[1]
Tax protest
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In 1968, Herlihy signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest " pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments as a protest against the Vietnam War.[7] tax resistance as a form of protest against the war.[8]
Death
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Herlihy committed suicide at the age of 66, by taking an overdose of sleeping pills in Los Angeles.[1] [9]
Bibliography
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Novels
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Plays
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Streetlight Sonata (1950)
Moon in Capricorn (1953)
Blue Denim
Crazy October (1959)
Stop, You're Killing Me: Three Short Plays (1969)
Collections
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The Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1958)
A Story That Ends with a Scream and Eight Others (1967)
References
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^ a b c Haskell, Arlo (April 29, 2010). "JAMES LEO HERLIHY The Midnight Cowboy in Key West" . Littoral . Retrieved December 14, 2014 .
^ Special Collections Department (October 1997), James Leo Herlihy Papers
^ "Theater: Laughing in the Dark" , Time , March 28, 1969, archived from the original on June 25, 2006, retrieved February 11, 2010
^ Egan, Sean (2011) "Ponies & Rainbows: The Life of James Kirkwood" Bearmanor Media, ISBN 1-59393-680-X , page 204
^ Houston, Levin (April 17, 1971), "Herlihy Captures Reader" , The Free Lance-Star - Apr 17, 1971 , retrieved February 11, 2010 [dead link
^ "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest", January 30, 1968 New York Post
^ "A Call to War Tax Resistance" The Cycle 14 May 1970, p. 7
^ Folkart, Burt A. (October 23, 1993). "J.L. Herlihy; 'Midnight Cowboy' Author" . The Los Angeles Times . Retrieved July 5, 2009 .
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