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(1922-2010) Novelist. Vance Bourjaily was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and died in Greenbrae, California. He lived part of his childhood in New York and later was a writer for the Village Voice.

Full Name

Vance Nye Bourjaily

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1922

BIRTH

Vance Nye Bourjaily was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 17, 1922.

1947

LITWORK

The End Of My Life
New York, Scribner. London, W. H. Allen (1963).

Novel.

1950

OTHER

Vance Bourjaily was a writer for the Village Voice for a time in the 1950s.

1955

LITWORK

The Hound Of Earth
New York, Scribner; London, Secker and Warburg, 1956.

Novel.

1958

LITWORK

The Violated
New York, Dial Press; London, W. H. Allen, 1962.

Novel.

1960

LITWORK

Confessions Of A Spent Youth
New York, Dial Press; London, W. H. Allen, 1961.

Novel.

1967

LITWORK

The Man Who Knew Kennedy
New York, Dial Press and London, W. H. Allen.

Novel.

1970

LITWORK

Brill Among The Ruins
New York, Dial Press; London, W. H. Allen, 1971.

Novel.

1976

LITWORK

Now Playing In Canterbury
New York, Dial Press.

Novel.

1980

LITWORK

A Game Men Play
New York, Dial Press.

Novel.

1987

LITWORK

The Great Fake Book
New York, Weidenfeld and Nicholson.

Novel.

1990

LITWORK

Old Soldier
New York, Fine.

Novel.

2010

DEATH

Vance Bourjaily died in Greenbrae, California, on August 31, 2010.

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