Author Harold Brodkey Writes Letter Critiquing A Larry Woiwode Novel: There Is A Market For His Kind Of Failure

HAROLD BRODKEY (1930-1996). Harold Brodkey, born Aaron Roy Weintraub, was an American novelist and short-story writer. He graduated from Harvard University in 1952 and began his career working for The New Yorker, where he received two O. Henry Awards for his short-stories. His most famous works are First Love and Other Sorrows, The Runaway Soul, which took him 32 years to complete, and This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death, which is about his struggle with AIDS, which he died from in 1996.