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Bio

(1948-2018) Author. Ricky Jay was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California.

Full Name

Ricky Jay

Locations

Tompkins

Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

As a youth, Mr. Jay worked in the Lake George area of New York State.

Unknown

OTHER

Mr. Jay worked in the East Village of Manhattan, New York.

1948

BIRTH

Richard Jay Potash was born in 1948, or maybe 1946, in Brooklyn, New York.

1960

RESIDENCE

For a time during the 1960s and 70s, Mr. Jay lived in Ithaca, New York, while attending Cornell University.

1977

LITWORK

Cards As Weapons
Images Graphiques
0882010174 / 978-0882010175
Nonfiction.

1986

LITWORK

Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women
Villard
0394537505 / 978-0394537504
Nonfiction.

2001

LITWORK

Jay's Journal of Anomalies
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
0374178674 / 978-0374178673
Nonfiction.

2002

LITWORK

Dice: Deception, Fate, and Rotten Luck
Quantuck Lane Press
0971454817 / 978-0971454811
Nonfiction.

2005

LITWORK

Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay
Quantuck Lane Press
1593720122 / 978-1593720124
Nonfiction.

2009

LITWORK

Magic: 1400s���1950s
Taschen
3836509776 / 978-3836509770
Nonfiction with Mike Caveney and Jim Steinmeyer.

2011

LITWORK

Celebrations of Curious Characters
McSweeney's
1936365030 / 978-1936365036
Nonfiction.

2016

LITWORK

Matthias Buchinger: 'The Greatest German Living'
Siglio
1938221125 / 978-1938221125
Nonfiction.

2018

DEATH

Ricky Jay died at his home in Los Angeles, California, on November 24, 2018.

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