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Brian Doyle (American writer)
American writer
Brian James Patrick Doyle was an American writer.[1][2] He was a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and three Pushcart Prizes.[3][4]
He lived with his wife and three children in Portland, Oregon. In May 2017, he died at the age of 60 due to a brain tumor.[3][5]
Early life and career
He was born in 1956 in New York City to an Irish Catholic family.[4] His mother, Ethel Clancey Doyle, was a teacher, and his father, James Doyle, was a journalist.[6] Doyle credits becoming a writer to his father:
But in almost every class I am asked how I became a writer, and after I make my usual joke about it being a benign neurosis, as my late friend George Higgins once told me, I usually talk about my dad. My dad was a newspaperman, and still is, at age 92, a man of great grace and patience and dignity, and he taught Oregon Author Brian Doyle Dies At 60 - OPB.