McElroy, Joseph

McElroy, Joseph

▪ American author
in full  Joseph Prince McElroy 
born Aug. 21, 1930, New York, N.Y., U.S.

      American novelist and short-story writer who was known for intricate, lengthy, and technically complex fiction.

      McElroy graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts (B.A., 1951), and Columbia University, New York City (M.A., 1952; Ph.D., 1961), served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1952 to 1954, and taught at the University of New Hampshire and at Queens College, City University of New York. His first novel, A Smuggler's Bible (1966), is made up of eight disconnected chapters that are separated by authorial commentary. This unusual narrative details various aspects of the life of the protagonist, David Brooke, such as his relationship with his father. McElroy's next two novels, Hind's Kidnap (1969) and Ancient History (1971), are both labyrinthine stories about uncovering a mystery. Lookout Cartridge (1974), perhaps McElroy's best work, is a political thriller about a filmmaker who searches London and New York City in an effort to recover movie footage that may have recorded a crime. Plus (1976) is a science-fiction (science fiction) work about a rebellious disembodied brain that operates a computer in outer space. In 1986 McElroy published Women and Men, a 1,191-page novel about a journalist and a feminist who live in the same apartment building in New York City but never meet. More accessible is The Letter Left to Me (1988), which centres on a letter of advice written by the late father of a 15-year-old boy.

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