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Jack Dunphy (John Paul Dunphy) was born on 22 August, 1914 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S., is an American novelist and playwright (1914-1992). Discover Jack Dunphy's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

Popular As John Paul Dunphy
Occupation Novelist, playwright
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 22 August, 1914
Birthday 22 August
Birthplace Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of death 26 April, 1992
Died Place New York City, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Joan McCracken (m. 1939-1948)

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1914

John Paul Dunphy (August 22, 1914 – April 26, 1992) was an American novelist and playwright.

Dunphy was widely known as the partner of American author Truman Capote.

Dunphy was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and was raised in a working-class neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

His sister was Gloria Dunphy.

1917

In this book, set again in Philadelphia, c. 1917, the same narrator, at age eight, tries to get his errant father Jim to return home to his family.

1939

He trained in ballet under Catherine Littlefield, danced at the 1939 New York World's Fair, and toured with the George Balanchine company in South America in 1941.

He married Joan McCracken, another Philadelphia dancer.

1942

Dunphy also danced in The Prodigal Son, a ballet performed on Broadway in conjunction with The Pirates of Penzance in 1942.

1943

They later appeared in the original Broadway production of Oklahoma! in 1943, in which McCracken played Sylvie and Dunphy danced as one of the cowboys.

1944

Dunphy enlisted in the U.S. Army in January 1944 during World War II.

During his service, he published his first work, "The Life of a Carrot," in Short Story magazine.

1946

John Fury (Harper and Brothers, 1946) is the story of an Irish working-class man who moves from a happy marriage to an unpleasant one in a life of poverty, hard work, and frustration, where his only reprisal is anger.

According to the website of Ayer Company Publishers, a reprint publisher of rare and hard to find titles, Mary McGrory praised the book in The New York Times at the time of publication:"It adds up to a remarkable first novel, warm and strong, its unflinching realism saved from brutality by the author's compassion and restraint ... What Betty Smith did tenderly for Brooklyn, James T. Farrell harshly for Chicago and, most recently, Edward McSorley in his moving Our Own Kind for Providence, Dunphy does for Philadelphia."

1948

When he met author Truman Capote in 1948, Dunphy had written John Fury, a well-received novel, and was just getting over a painful divorce from McCracken.

1949

Calmann-Lévy published a French translation in 1949, which is available at the Library of Congress.

1950

In 1950, the two writers settled in Taormina, Sicily, in a house where the author D. H. Lawrence had once lived.

Ten years older than Capote, Dunphy was in many ways Capote’s opposite, as solitary as Capote was exuberantly social.

Though they drifted more and more apart in the later years, the couple stayed together until Capote's death.

1952

Other Dunphy novels are Friends and Vague Lovers (Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952), Nightmovers (William Morrow, 1967), An Honest Woman (Random House, 1971), First Wine (Louisiana State University Press, 1982) and its sequel, The Murderous McLaughlins, (McGraw-Hill, 1988).

1976

Arno Press reprinted the English version in 1976.

1984

When Capote died in 1984, his will named Dunphy as the chief beneficiary.

Eight years later, Dunphy died of cancer in New York at age 77.

Dunphy and Capote had separate houses in Sagaponack, New York.

Following their deaths, some of the money from their estates was donated to The Nature Conservancy, which used it to acquire nearby Crooked Pond on the Long Island Greenbelt between Sag Harbor, New York and Bridgehampton, New York, and their mingled ashes were scattered by the pond where a marker commemorates them.

JoAnne Carson, the second wife of Johnny Carson, maintained that she also had some of Capote's ashes (a claim Dunphy denied), which she had kept at her home in Bel Air, where Capote died.

After those ashes were stolen and then returned, she bought a crypt for them at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, although it is unclear whether the ashes were ever deposited there.

1987

Dunphy also wrote Dear Genius: A Memoir of My Life with Truman Capote, published by McGraw-Hill in 1987.

According to the review at Amazon.com, the book is actually a novel, with the subtitle provided by the publisher; Dunphy had subtitled the manuscript more accurately A Tribute to Truman Capote.

Dunphy's plays include:

2005

Dunphy is portrayed by Bruce Greenwood in the 2005 film Capote and by John Benjamin Hickey in the 2006 film Infamous.

He is portrayed by Joe Mantello in the FX television series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.

2015

Carson died in 2015.

Capote dedicated his short story "One Christmas" to Jack's sister, Gloria Dunphy.