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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 , he died at the age of 60 due to a brain tumor.^[3][5]

Early life and career

He was born in 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 me immensely v