Maureen Duffy Biography (1933-)

Full name, Maureen Patricia Duffy; born October 21, 1933, in Worthing, Sussex, England; daughter of Cahia Patrick Duffy and Grace Rose Wright. Addresses: Agent--Jonathan Clowes Ltd., 22 Prince Albert Rd., London NW1 7ST, England.

Nationality
English
Gender
Female
Birth Details
October 21, 1933
Worthing, Sussex, England

Famous Works

  • Writings;PLAYS
  • The Lay-Off, produced at the City of London Festival, London, 1962.
  • The Silk Room, produced at the Watford Civic Theatre, Watford, Hertfordshire, England, 1966.
  • Rites, produced by the National Theatre Company at the Jeannetta CochraneTheatre, London, 1969, published in New Short Plays 2, Methuen, 1969.
  • Solo, Olde Tyme, produced in Cambridge, England, 1970.
  • A Nightingale in Bloomsbury Square, produced at the Hampstead Theatre, London, 1974, published in Factions, edited by Giles Gordon and Alex Hamilton,Joseph, 1974.
  • Also author of Megrim.
  • Writings;NOVELS
  • That's How It Was, Hutchinson, 1962, Dial Press, 1984.
  • The Single Eye, Hutchinson, 1964.
  • The Microcosm, Simon and Schuster, 1966.
  • The Paradox Players, Hutchinson, 1967, Simon and Schuster, 1968.
  • Wounds, Knopf, 1969.
  • Love Child, Knopf, 1971.
  • All Heaven in a Rage, Knopf, 1973, published in England as I Want to Go to Moscow: A Lay, Hodder and Stoughton, 1973.
  • Capital, Cape, 1975, Braziller, 1976.
  • Housespy, Hamish Hamilton, 1978.
  • Gor Saga, Eyre Methuen, 1981, Viking, 1982.
  • (Under pseudonym D. M. Cayer) Scarborough Fear, Macdonald, 1982.
  • Londoners, Methuen, 1983.
  • Change, Methuen, 1987.
  • Illuminations, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991.
  • Writings;POETRY
  • Lyrics for the Dog Hour, Hutchinson, 1968.
  • The Venus Touch, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971.
  • Actaeon, Sceptre Press, 1973.
  • Evesong, Sappho, 1975.
  • Memorials of the Quick and the Dead, Hamish Hamilton, 1979.
  • Collected Poems, Hamish Hamilton, 1985.
  • Writings;OTHER
  • (Translator) Domenico Rea, A Blush of Shame, Barrie and Rockliff, 1968.
  • The Erotic World of Faery, Hodder and Stoughton, 1972.
  • (Editor with Alan Brownjohn) New Poetry 3, Arts Council, 1977.
  • The Passionate Shepherdess: Aphra Behn 1640-1689 (biography), Cape, 1977,Avon, 1979.
  • Inherit the Earth: A Social History, Hamish Hamilton, 1980.
  • Men and Beasts: An Animal Rights Handbook, Paladin, 1984.
  • (Editor) Aphra Behn, Oroonoko and Other Stories, Methuen, 1986.
  • A Thousand Capricious Chances: A History of the Methuen List 1889-1989, Methuen, 1989.
  • Author of Josie (television play), 1961; and Only Goodnight (radio play),1981. Contributor to periodicals, including New Statesman.
  • Manuscripts held at King's College, University of London.
  • Other Works
  • Adaptations: Gor Saga was adapted for television by Arts and Entertainment and broadcast as First Born in 1989.

Further Reference

BOOKS

  • Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Volume 33, Gale, 1991.
  • Contemporary Dramatists, 4th edition, St. James Press, 1988.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 14: British Novelists since 1960, Gale, 1983.
  • Major Twentieth-Century Writers, Gale, 1991.
PERIODICALS
  • New Statesman, April 17, 1987, p. 20.