Harold Brodkey (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Harold Roy Brodkey was born Aaron Roy Weintraub across the Mississippi River from and slightly to the northeast of St. Louis, Missouri, in Alton, Illinois, in 1930. His father, a junk man, was illiterate. Aaron's mother died when he was an infant, and his father, unable to care for the child, allowed Joseph and Doris Brodkey to adopt him. They changed his name to Harold and gave him their surname, a corruption of the family's original Russian name, Bezborodko.
In Brodkey's fiction, Joseph and Doris Brodkey become Leila and S. L. (perhaps to suggest St. Louis)...
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