James McCourt | |
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![]() "The central photo was taken by Laura Rubin a long time ago, and the ones on the far right were taken even longer ago: Jimmy McCourt in Central Park the summer before we met at Yale in '64 and me getting on a boat in Amsterdam in '65." Vincent Virga | |
Born | July 4, 1941 |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Yale School of Drama |
Partner | Vincent Virga |
James McCourt (born July 4, 1941) is a gay [1] American-born writer and novelist who was raised in Jackson Heights, Queens. [2] McCourt has been with his life partner, novelist Vincent Virga, [3] since 1964 [4] after they met at Yale University as graduate students in the Yale School of Drama. [4] McCourt's and Virga's papers are held [5] at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
McCourt is best known for his extravagant novel Mawrdew Czgowchwz (1975), about a fictional opera diva, and his 2003 nonfiction book Queer Street, about gay life in New York City after World War II. His novel, Now Voyagers (2007), is the first in a series of projected sequels to Mawrdew Czgowchwz.
McCourt has garnered praise from critics Susan Sontag and Harold Bloom and has been championed by author Dennis Cooper. Sontag directed McCourt's first novel, Mawrdew Czgowchwz, to her publisher's attention, [3] while Bloom named a later work, Time Remaining to his influential Western Canon. [6] [7] Mawrdew Czgowchwz was brought back in print in 2002 with a new introduction by Wayne Koestenbaum.
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![]() "The central photo was taken by Laura Rubin a long time ago, and the ones on the far right were taken even longer ago: Jimmy McCourt in Central Park the summer before we met at Yale in '64 and me getting on a boat in Amsterdam in '65." Vincent Virga | |
Born | July 4, 1941 |
Occupation |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Yale School of Drama |
Partner | Vincent Virga |
James McCourt (born July 4, 1941) is a gay [1] American-born writer and novelist who was raised in Jackson Heights, Queens. [2] McCourt has been with his life partner, novelist Vincent Virga, [3] since 1964 [4] after they met at Yale University as graduate students in the Yale School of Drama. [4] McCourt's and Virga's papers are held [5] at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
McCourt is best known for his extravagant novel Mawrdew Czgowchwz (1975), about a fictional opera diva, and his 2003 nonfiction book Queer Street, about gay life in New York City after World War II. His novel, Now Voyagers (2007), is the first in a series of projected sequels to Mawrdew Czgowchwz.
McCourt has garnered praise from critics Susan Sontag and Harold Bloom and has been championed by author Dennis Cooper. Sontag directed McCourt's first novel, Mawrdew Czgowchwz, to her publisher's attention, [3] while Bloom named a later work, Time Remaining to his influential Western Canon. [6] [7] Mawrdew Czgowchwz was brought back in print in 2002 with a new introduction by Wayne Koestenbaum.
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Nonfiction
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![]() | This article's use of
external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. (November 2017) |
Critical
Interviews