James Purdy

Writer.

Born July 17th, 1914 in Fremont.

Died March 13th, 2009 at 94 years old in Englewood. [ref]

Occupations
novelist, playwright, poet, teacher, translator, writer
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It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks