J.P. Donleavy, an Irish American novelist whose 1955 debut, “The Ginger Man,” was rejected by 45 publishers for its scabrous, sexually explicit content but eventually sold more than 45 million copies ...

J.P. Donleavy, the incorrigible Irish American author and playwright whose ribald debut novel “The Ginger Man” met scorn, censorship and eventually celebration as a groundbreaking classic, has died at ...

J.P. Donleavy, the Irish American author of "The Ginger Man," was born in New York on April 23, 1926. He spent most of his adult decades in Co Westmeath, where he passed away on September 11, 2017.

J P Donleavy, the writer, who has died aged 91, wrote several novels and made a small reputation as an artist, but the one work with which he will be forever associated is The Ginger Man (1955), which ...

Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and celebrate the amazing ability of the Irish to tell a good story for the IrishCentral Book Club. "The Ginger Man," ...

LONDON: J.P. Donleavy, the incorrigible Irish-American author and playwright whose ribald debut novel "The Ginger Man" met scorn, censorship and eventually celebration as a groundbreaking classic, has ...

LONDON (AP) — J.P. Donleavy, the incorrigible Irish-American author and playwright whose ribald debut novel "The Ginger Man" met scorn, censorship and eventually celebration as a groundbreaking ...

LONDON — J.P. Donleavy, the incorrigible Irish-American author and playwright whose ribald debut novel “The Ginger Man” met scorn, censorship and eventually celebration as a groundbreaking classic, ...