Harold Brodkey (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Harold Brodkey distinguished himself as a chronicler of what it is like to grow up—in his case, Jewish and adopted—in the Midwest. He was born Aaron Roy Weintraub in 1930. His father was an illiterate junk man; his mother was bright, bookish, and fluent in five or six languages. After his mother died (Brodkey was still an infant), his father, unable to care for him, turned him over to Joseph and Doris Brodkey, who adopted him and gave him their surname. Brodkey lost his adoptive parents when he was in his teens: Joseph became an invalid because of a stroke and died five years later;...
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