J. P. Donleavy

Novelist, playwright, essayist (1926-2017).

Born April 23rd, 1926 in Brooklyn. [ref]

Died September 11th, 2017 at 91 years old in Mullingar (stroke). [ref]

Occupations
non-fiction writer, novelist, playwright, writer
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Marcus Aurelius