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Brodkey was born in Staunton, Illinois and raised in University City, Missouri outside St. Louis . After graduating from Harvard University in 1952 , Brodkey began his writing career by contributing short stories to '' The New Yorker '' and other magazines. His stories have won him two first-place O. Henry Award s. In 1993 Brodkey announced in ''The New Yorker'' that he had contracted AIDS . He later wrote ''This Wild Darkness'' about his battle with the disease. At the time of his death in 1996, he was living in New York City with his wife, novelist Ellen Schwamm .


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Novels



Non-fiction

  • '''' ( 1996 , ISBN 0805048316)

  • '' My Venice '' ( 1998 , ISBN 0805048332)

  • '''' ( 1999 , ISBN 0805060529)



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