James Leo Herlihy (27 February 1927-21 October 1993) was an American novelist and playwright, best known for his works Midnight Cowboy and Blue Denim. He was born in 1927 to a working class family in Detroit, Michigan. February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 71 days remaining. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is someone who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 film written by Waldo Salt based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy, and directed by John Schlesinger. ... Blue Denim was a successful 1958 Broadway play by writer James Leo Herlihy, made the next year into a successful movie starring Brandon De Wilde and Carol Lynley (who had appeared in the stage version), and dealing with the issues of teenage pregnancy and (then-illegal) abortion. ...

He also wrote the novel All Fall Down, which was also adapted for the screenplay of the film of the same name. Other works include The Season of the Witch and a number of short stories. All Fall Down is an album by the speed-punk band Against All Authority. ...

He was an occasional actor (Blue Denim onstage). He committed suicide (an overdose of sleeping pills) in Los Angeles in 1993. Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

Bibliography

Novels

• All Fall Down – (1960) (filmed in 1962)
• Midnight Cowboy – (1965) (filmed in 1969)
• The Season of the Witch – (1971)

For other uses, see All Fall Down (disambiguation) All Fall Down is a 1960 novel by James Leo Herlihy, which was adapted into a 1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer. ... Midnight Cowboy is a 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy (27 February 1927-21 October 1993) that chronicles the dim-witted Texan Joe Bucks odyssey from Texas to New York, New York, where he plans on realizing his dream of becoming a male prostitute servicing rich ladies. ...

Plays

• Streetlight Sonata – (1950)
• Moon in Capricorn – (1953)
• Blue Denim – (1958) (filmed in 1959)
• Stop, You’re Killing Me: Three Short Plays – (1969)

Blue Denim was a successful 1958 Broadway play by writer James Leo Herlihy, made the next year into a successful movie starring Brandon De Wilde and Carol Lynley (who had appeared in the stage version), and dealing with the issues of teenage pregnancy and (then-illegal) abortion. ...

Collections

• The Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories – (1958)
• A Story That Ends with a Scream and Eight Others – (1967)