J(ames) P(atrick) Donleavy

Donleavy, J(ames) P(atrick) (1926– ), U.S. novelist and playwright. He is known for his black humor vision of life in such works as The Ginger Man (1955), A Singular Man (1963), Shultz (1979), and That Darcy, that Dancer, that Gentleman (1991). The History of the Ginger Man (1994) is his autobiography.