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HUBERT
SELBY JR
'A major American author of a stature with William Burroughs and Joseph
Heller'Los
Angeles Times
Hubert Selby Jr was born on the 23rd of July, 1928. After leaving school
in the ninth grade at the age of 15, he went to sea, working in the Merchant
Marine. He became physically disabled at the age of 18 and was given up
for dead several times. During this period, he spent more than three years
in hospital, most of the time in bed. He then had a succession of jobs,
including secretary, insurance clerk, gas station attendant...
Around 1956, he started writing because, he says, 'I did not want to die
having done nothing with my life'. He has been married three times, and
has four children.
MEDIA
PRAISE FOR HUBERT SELBY JR.
Last Exit to Brooklyn:
‘An extraordinary achievement. Selby does it with a vision of hell
so stern that it cannot be chucked or raged aside’
New York Times
The
Willow Tree:
‘…one of the greatest writers in the English language of the 20th
century, certainly the most original since 1964…’
The Independent
‘’When
Selby decides to attack, it is with the shock of a practised mugger and
with the speed and economy of a poet’
Los Angeles Times
The
Room:
‘assures Selby’s place in the first rank of American novelists’
New York Times Book Review
Bibliography
Novels
Last Exit to Brooklyn
(1964)
The Room (1971)
The Demon (1976)
Requiem for a Dream (1978)
Song of the Silent Snow (1986)
The Willow Tree
(1998)
Waiting Period
(2002)
Television scripts
The Bowery
The Third Commandment
Films
Strike
Looking for Lennie Berkowitz
Day and Night
Love Your Buddy Week
Soldier of Fortune
'Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists ... to understand
his work is to understand the anguish of America.' New
York Times Book Review