The World as I Found It (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590173602)

Bruce Duffy (1951-2022) wass the author of the autobiographical novel Last Comes the Egg (1997), and Disaster Was My God, a novel based on the life and work of the poet Arthur Rimbaud. An only child raised in a Catholic middle-class family in suburban Maryland, Duffy saw the 1962 death of his mother--essentially by medical malpractice-- as what pushed him to be a writer. Duffy graduated from the University of Maryland in 1973, and hitchhiked twice across the United States, worked construction, washed dishes, hopped freight trains with hoboes, and reported stories that have taken him to Haiti, Bosnia, and Taliban Afghanistan. Writing in Salon, Joyce Carol Oates named The World As I Found It as one of "five great nonfiction novels," calling it "one of the most ambitious first novels ever published." Duffy won the Whiting Writers' Award and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award.

David Leavitt 's books include The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer and the novel The Indian Clerk, a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner Prize and the IMPAC /Dublin Literary Award. He co-directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Florida.Bruce Duffy was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Irish American parents. His novels include The World as I Found It and Last Comes the Egg. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award. He lives in Maryland.