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McElroy, Joseph
McElroy, Joseph (1930– ),born in Brooklyn, after an A.B. from Williams and Ph.D. from Columbia has been a professor of English at Queens College, CUNY (1964– ). His writing is A Smuggler's Bible (1966), about adventures of a young antiquarian bookseller; Hind's Kidnap (1969), a man's inquiry into a seizure that he suffered as a boy; Ancient History (1971); Lookout Cartridge (1974), concerning a film maker caught in sinister situations; Plus (1977), about the relationship of a brain to an engineer dying of a radiation burn; Ship Rock (1980); Women and Men (1987), a lengthy treatment of the lives of a man and woman unconnected except that they live in the same apartment building; and The Letter Left to Me (1988), a short account of a 15‐year‐old boy who receives a letter from his father who has just committed suicide.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "McElroy, Joseph." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "McElroy, Joseph." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-McElroyJoseph.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "McElroy, Joseph." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-McElroyJoseph.html |
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