Estate of Harold Brodkey

Harold Brodkey was born into a Mid-Western Jewish family. After Graduating from Harvard University in 1952 he moved to New York and came to prominence as a writer in the early 1950s. During the following four decades he established himself as a modern master of short fiction contributing to The New Yorker and various other magazines. His stories have twice achieved first-place in the O. Henry Awards. He contracted the AIDS virus in 1996 and wrote This Wild Darkness that describes his struggle with the disease. He died in 1996. Some of his books were published posthumously.

Titles

Short Story Collections:

The World is the Home of Love and Death (Owl Books, 1997)

Stories in an Almost Classical Mode (Picador, 1988)

First Love and Other Sorrows (Henry Holt, 1958)

Novels:

Profane Friendship (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994)

The Runaway Soul (Vintage, 1991)

Women and Angels (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1985)

Non-fiction:

Sea Battles on Dry Land: Essays (Henry Holt & Co, 1999)

My Venice (Henry Holt, 1998)

This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death (Fourth Estate, 1996)