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- Birth nameJames Otis Purdy
- James Purdy was born on July 17, 1914 in Fremont, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for In a Shallow Grave (1988), Our Time (1983) and Hier is... Adriaan van Dis (1983). He died on March 13, 2009 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
- He earned a Bachelor's Degree in French at Bowling Green State College (now University) in Bowling Green, Ohio in 1935 and a Master's Degree in English at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois in 1937.
- While serving in the United States Army, he studied at the University of Puebla in Puebla, Mexico.
- He taught Spanish at Lawrence College (now University) in Appleton, Wisconsin from 1946 to 1956.
- He moved to New York City in 1960 and lived there until his death in 2009.
- His last residence before his death was in Brooklyn Heights, New York.
- I don't think I'd like it if people liked me, I'd think that something had gone wrong.
- Reputations are made here as in Russia, on political respectability, or by commercial acceptability. The worse the author, the more he is known.
- I can describe my books as I see them as American, imaginative, symbolic. My literary ancestors are two other Calvinists, Hawthorne and Melville.
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