1. Bruce Duffy was best known for his novel The World as I Found It.
12 Facts About Bruce Duffy
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Bruce Duffy won a Whiting Award and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988.
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Bruce Duffy's father, Jack, operated a heating and air conditioning business; his mother, Joan was a housewife who died when he was eleven.
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Bruce Duffy studied English literature at the University of Maryland, where he was taught by Marjorie Perloff, who influenced his writings.
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Bruce Duffy was later employed as a consultant for Labat-Anderson, before becoming a speechwriter for Fannie Mae and Deloitte.
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Bruce Duffy published his first book, The World as I Found It, in 1987.
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Bruce Duffy was conferred the Whiting Award for emerging writers in fiction in 1988, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow that same year.
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One decade elapsed before Bruce Duffy released his second book titled Last Comes the Egg.
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Bruce Duffy had spent the intervening years reflecting on the works and wild life of the French poet, in order to "create that oxymoron, a likable Arthur Rimbaud".
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Bruce Duffy was working on another novel at the time of his death in 2022, which remained unfinished.
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Bruce Duffy died on February 10,2022, in hospice care in Rockville, Maryland.
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Bruce Duffy was 70, and suffered from brain cancer, having been diagnosed with the illness in 2011.