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(November 2019) Joseph McElroy Born (1930-08-21) August 21, 1930 (age 90) New York City, United States Occupation Novelist, Professor Literary movement Postmodern Notable works Lookout Cartridge, Women and Men Website josephmcelroy.com Joseph Prince McElroy[1] (born August 21, 1930) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.[2] Contents 1 Personal background 2 Career 3 Honors and awards 4 Published works 4.1 Novels 4.2 Short stories 4.3 Essays 5 References 6 Further reading 6.1 Book chapters on McElroy 6.2 Anthologies of McElroy criticism 7 External links Personal background[edit] McElroy was born on August 21, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York. McElroy grew up in Brooklyn Heights. He graduated from Poly Prep Country Day School in 1947 and was given an Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award in 2007 from the school's Board of Governors.[3] He graduated from Williams College in 1951. The following year, he earned a master's degree from Columbia University. He served in the Coast Guard from 1952 to 1954, and then returned to Columbia to complete his Ph.D. in 1961.[4] In 1961, McElroy married Joan Leftwich, of London, in London. She is the daughter of Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jews; her father, Joseph Leftwich, was a translator and anthologizer of Yiddish poetry.[5] The McElroys' only child, Hanna, was born in 1967. McElroy assisted with the birth.[4] Career[edit] McElroy taught English and Creative Writing at the University of New Hampshire from 1956 to 1962[4] and at Queens College, City University of New York from 1964 to 1995, when he retired. McElroy's first novel, "A Smuggler's Bible," was published in 1966. McElroy said "A Smuggler's Bible" "is like everybody's first novel, trying to put too much between covers. ...[I}t's a young book, and young people still seem to like it."[6] McElroy's writing is often grouped with that of William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon, due to the encyclopedic quality of his novels, especially Women and Men (1987). His short fiction was first published in literary journals. Echoes of McElroy's work can be found in that of Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace. McElroy's work often reflects a preoccupation with how science functions in American society;[7] Exponential, a collection of essays published in Italy in 2003, collects science and technology journalism written primarily in the 1970s and 1980s for the New York Review of Books.[8] In 1980, McElroy and his class at Queens College interviewed Norman Mailer.[9][10] He interviewed Harry Mathews in 2002 for the Village Voice.[11] McElroy wrote about his fiction and influences in his essay "Neural Neighborhoods".[12] Honors and awards[edit] John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Fiction, 1976[13] American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, 1977[14] Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship[4] Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, twice[4] National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, twice[4] Published works[edit] Novels[edit] A Smuggler's Bible, Harcourt Brace, 368 pages, 1966. ISBN 978-0233959764 Hind's Kidnap: A Pastoral on Familiar Airs, Harper and Row, 534 pages, 1969. ISBN 978-0893661052 Ancient History: A Paraphase, Knopf, 307 pages, 1971. ISBN 978-0394469256 Lookout Cartridge, Knopf, 531 pages, 1974. ISBN 978-0394493756 Plus, Knopf, 215 pages, 1977. ISBN 978-0394407944 Women and Men, Knopf, 1192 pages, 1987. ISBN 978-0394503448 The Letter Left to Me, Knopf, 151 pages, 1988. ISBN 978-0394571966 Actress in the House, Overlook, 432 pages, 2003. ISBN 978-1585673506 Cannonball, Dzanc Books, 312 pages, 2013. ISBN 978-1938604218 Short stories[edit] Ship Rock: A Place, William B. Ewert, Concord, New Hampshire, limited edition, 42 pages, 1980 republished as a chapter in Women and Men, 1987 Preparations for Search 1984 revised and printed as a chapbook, by Small Anchor Press, 2010 Night Soul and Other Stories, Dalkey Archive Press, 304 pages, 2011. ISBN 978-1564786029 Essays[edit] Exponential (2003; published in Italy) "Neural Neighborhoods and Other Concrete Abstracts" (1974) References[edit] ^ Full name as used on his doctoral thesis The Poetry of Henry King, Columbia University, 1961. ^ Andrew Essex (2003-06-03). "The Complications - Page 1 - Books - New York". Village Voice. Retrieved 2012-10-07. ^ "Poly Prep Country Day School ~ Five Alumni Receive Distinguished Achievement Awards". Polyprep.org. 2007-04-15. Retrieved 2012-09-18. ^ a b c d e f World Authors 1975-1980 ^ one of his translations was used by McElroy in A Smuggler's Bible from an anthology Leftwich dedicated to Joan ^ {{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xd4ewj/postmodernism-and-sumo-wrestlers-an-interview-with-joseph-mcelroy ^ Tom LeClair interview ^ "Joseph McElroy: Official Author Website". Exponential. Retrieved 2013-01-15. ^ "A Little on Novel-Writing", Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose 6 (1981) ^ Mailer, Norman, Pontifications (1982). ^ Should Writing Hurt? ^ "Neural Neighborhoods and Other Concrete Abstracts", TriQuarterly 34 (Fall 1975), pp201-2. ^ "All Fellows - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Archived from the original on 2012-09-07. Retrieved 2012-09-18. ^ "American Academy of Arts and Letters - Award Winners". Artsandletters.org. Archived from the original on 2008-10-13. Retrieved 2012-09-18. Further reading[edit] Colby, Vineta (ed). World Authors, 1975-1980 LeClair, Tom. "An Interview with Joseph McElroy", Anything Can Happen, Tom LeClair and Larry McCaffery (eds.), 1983. Morrow, Bradford. "An Interview", Conjunctions 10 (1987). Book chapters on McElroy[edit] LeClair, Tom (1989), The Art of Excess: Mastery in Contemporary American Fiction, University of Illinois Press, pp. 131–174, chapter six, ISBN 978-0252061028. McHale, Brian (1993), Constructing Postmodernism, Taylor & Francis, pp. 188–206, chapter eight, ISBN 978-0415060134. Tabbi, Joseph (1996), Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk, Cornell University Press, pp. 154–168, chapter six, ISBN 978-0801483837. Tanner, Tony (1987), Scenes of nature, signs of men, Cambridge University Press, pp. 206–237, chapter 11, ISBN 978-0521311557. Ziegler, Heide, ed. (1988), Facing Texts: Encounters Between Contemporary Writers and Critics, Duke University Press, pp. 263–272, ISBN 978-0822308188, detailed character analysis. Anthologies of McElroy criticism[edit] "Table of Contents". The Review of Contemporary Fiction. X (1). 1990. "Festschrift". Electronic Book Review. 2004. "Festschrift". Golden Handcuffs Review. 1 (14). 2011. Archived from the original on 2013-01-25. External links[edit] Official website The Literary Encyclopedia A Joseph McElroy Festschrift (electronic book review) Joseph McElroy resources on the Web "The Courage of Joseph McElroy" (essay) Radio interviews with Michael Silverblatt for Bookworm Conversation with author Joshua Cohen for a Triple Canopy podcast v t e Novels by Joseph McElroy A Smuggler's Bible Hind's Kidnap Ancient History: A Paraphase Lookout Cartridge Plus Women and Men The Letter Left to Me Actress in the House Cannonball Authority control BNF: cb121378364 (data) ISNI: 0000 0000 9455 782X LCCN: n79056150 NTA: 334059054 PLWABN: 9810699406305606 SNAC: w6xh26vt SUDOC: 033879893 VIAF: 68964457 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n79056150 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_McElroy&oldid=975002492" Categories: 1930 births Living people Postmodern writers American science fiction writers 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from New York (state) American male novelists Writers from Brooklyn Williams College alumni Columbia University alumni Poly Prep alumni University of New Hampshire faculty Queens College, City University of New York faculty National Endowment for the Arts Fellows Rockefeller Fellows United States Coast Guard personnel People from Brooklyn Heights Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Wikipedia introduction cleanup from November 2019 All pages needing cleanup Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from November 2019 All articles covered by WikiProject Wikify Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages العربية Français Српски / srpski Українська Edit links This page was last edited on 26 August 2020, at 04:58 (UTC). 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