William Jay Gaynor

McInerney, Jay

McInerney, Jay (1955– ),novelist. Born in Connecticut and educated at Williams College, McInerney went to New York City as a fact‐checker for The New Yorker magazine. His first novel, Bright Lights, Big City (1984), about a young man's experience of existential furor in the city, won critical praise. A comic novel is Ransom (1985), set in Japan. The Story of My Life (1988) is another novel. Brightness Falls (1992) is a satiric novel about the excesses of city people in the 1980s. Model Behavior (1998) collects comic short stories and a novel. The Last of the Savages (1998) charts three decades of the American experience, beginning in the mid 1960s, as its two main characters move from youth to middle age.

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William Jay Gaynor

William Jay Gaynor 1849–1913, U.S. political leader, mayor of New York City, b. Oneida co., N.Y. He rose to prominence as a civic reformer in Brooklyn and, as justice of the New York supreme court (1893–1909), continued to oppose municipal graft. Tammany named him candidate; he won the 1909 election but soon lost Tammany support by his reform program, which was not highly successful. His strong and unconventional personality made him a spectacular figure of his time.

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