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- Hubert Selby Jr., the Brooklyn-born ex-merchant mariner who turned to drugs and to writing after cheating death and created a lasting vision of urban hell in his novel ''Last Exit to Brooklyn,'' died yesterday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 75.
www.nytimes.com/2004/04/27/business/hubert-selby-jr-dies-at-75-wrote-last-exit-to-brooklyn.html
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Hubert "Cubby" Selby Jr. [1] (July 23, 1928 – April 26, 2004) was an American writer. Two of his novels, Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) and Requiem for a Dream (1978), explore worlds in the New York area and were adapted as films, both of which he appeared in.
Apr 27, 2004 · Hubert Selby Jr., the Brooklyn-born ex-merchant mariner who turned to drugs and to writing after cheating death and created a lasting vision of urban hell in his novel ''Last Exit to...
He was 75. Selby, who had been in and out of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ West Los Angeles Healthcare Center in recent weeks, died Monday of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at home...
May 8, 2004 · Selby died April 26 at the age of 75 of the lung disease that had plagued him since childhood. But family and friends remembered him Friday as sparkling, witty and cackling, a writer of gospel...
Apr 27, 2004 · Hubert Selby Jr., the acclaimed and anguished author of “Last Exit to Brooklyn” and “Requiem for a Dream,” died Monday of a lung disease, his wife said. He was 75.
Jul 27, 2020 · Hubert “Cubby’ Selby Jr was born in Brooklyn, July 23, 1928, and died in Los Angeles in 2004, where he’d been living (teaching and writing and influencing a whole generation of writers, and whole new generations) for more than two decades
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. The novel takes a harsh, uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 1950s written in spare, stripped-down prose. [1] Critics and fellow writers praised the book on its release.
