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.

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