𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐲 was born on April 23, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were Irish immigrants who settled with their three children in the Bronx neighborhood of Woodlawn. Donleavy established a poor reputation in school when he was expelled from Fordham Preparatory, a New York Jesuit school. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II, then used the GI bill to attend Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. He lived in Ireland and England, eventually settling permanently in Ireland.⠀ ⠀ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐧⠀ ⠀ The Ginger Man is the story of Sebastian Dangerfield, "a solitary outsider in a hostile society who is motivated by greed, prurience, and envy," noted a reviewer for Contemporary Literary Criticism. Dangerfield "spends most of his time pursuing women and alcohol while neglecting his wife, child, and law studies, and he aspires to upper-class status but is unwilling to compromise his nonconformist nature to attain financial success." Donleavy wrote the book, noted Ginny Dougary of The Times, using "a style that was as arresting as his hero: a combination of whiplash narrative and stream of consciousness, punctuated by the four-line haiku that were to become his trademark."⠀ ⠀ ==⠀ ⠀ Source: "James Patrick Donleavy." Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, vol. 19, Gale, 1999. Gale In Context: Biography⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #pgcc #pgcclibrary #IrishAmericanHeritageMonth #jpdonleavy #thegingerman (at Prince George's Community College) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9UTDuZnM2g/?igshid=1axczwy3l69jp
