Donleavy
Americannoun
noun
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In 2011, it was reported that Mr. Donleavy had not fathered his two children with Price.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2017
Still, an abridged version of the book began to gain traction in England, and Mr. Donleavy found his revenge against Olympia in a two-decade-long legal war over the rights to his novel.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2017
In his spectral wit, Donleavy could resemble Samuel Beckett; in his delighted lustiness, Henry Miller; in his damp and scattered wordplay, James Joyce.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2017
James Patrick Donleavy was born in Brooklyn on April 23, 1926, and raised in the Bronx, where he took up boxing as a child.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2017
Mr. Donleavy didn’t leave us long in the dark over who made these improvements available to Central High.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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