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Joseph McElroy
Joseph Prince McElroy〔Full name as used on his doctoral thesis ''The Poetry of Henry King'', Columbia University, 1961.〕 (born August 21, 1930) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is noted for writing difficult fiction.
== Personal background ==
Joseph McElroy was born on August 21, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York, the only child of Joseph Prince and Louise (née Lawrence) McElroy. McElroy's father was a scholarship student to Harvard University who majored in chemistry, but later worked as a stockbroker. He died when McElroy was 15 years old.
McElroy grew up in Brooklyn Heights. He graduated from Poly Prep Country Day School in 1947 and was given an Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award in 2007 from the school's Board of Governors. He attended Williams College, from where he earned a Bachelor's degree in 1951. The following year, he earned a Masters degree from Columbia University. He served in the Coast Guard from 1952–54, and then returned to Columbia to complete his Ph.D. in 1961.〔''World Authors 1975-1980〕
In 1961, McElroy married Joan Leftwich, of London, in London. She is the daughter of Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jews. Her father, Joseph Leftwich, was a translator and anthologizer of Yiddish poetry.〔one of his translations was used by McElroy in ''A Smuggler's Bible'' from an anthology Leftwich dedicated to Joan〕 The McElroys' only child, a daughter Hanna, was born in 1967. McElroy assisted with the birth.〔
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