Background
Duffy, James Henry was born on February 3, 1934 in Lowville, New York, United States. Son of William Christopher and Phyllis Catherine (Rofinot) Duffy.
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Dog Bites Man: City Shocked: A Novel
("Dog Bites Man" is a witty, tongue-in-cheek saga detailin...)
"Dog Bites Man" is a witty, tongue-in-cheek saga detailing the House-That-Jack-Built downfall of Eldon Hoagland, an innocent Columbia University professor who has become New York City's good-government mayor. The hilarious spiral begins when Hoagland, after an evening of drinking with his old Princeton roommate, staggers out of a Fifth Avenue apartment house, steps on a dog relieving itself alongside the mayor's car, and gets badly bitten. His cop-bodyguards shoot the dog and in the process terrorize Genc Serreqi -- an illegal Albanian stud who walks the dog (in addition to more intimate chores) for Sue Nation Brandberg, a former Native American beauty queen and socialite widow of a billionaire -- and he flees the scene. The mayor's bodyguards attempt to cover up their involvement in the shooting, but "Scoop" Rice, an eager young reporter for a muckraking Manhattan weekly, investigates and exposes the canine slaying. Then extreme animal activists, aided and abetted by every other interest group with a grievance against the mayor, tie up the city (not to mention air traffic around the world) in a monumental demonstration. Also offering encouragement are the rabid, newly amalgamated daily Post-News and the state's first woman governor, Randilynn "Randy Randy" Foote, who nurses an ancient grudge against the mayor and hastens his political demise. In "Dog Bites Man, " novelist James Duffy mixes it up in a lively tale of American politics in which rich movers and shakers, politically correct crusaders and scandal-hungry media types conspire to bring down a New York City mayor. All the hazards of American public life are on hilarious display here, in the freshest novel of mannersand most outrageous political satire of the year.
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Other Work
- Author: Domestic Affairs: American Programs and Priorities, 1979, Dog Bites Man: City Shocked, 2001, (under pseudonym Haughton Murphy) Murder for Lunch, 1986, Murder Takes a Partner, 1987, Murders and Acquisitions, 1988, Murder Keeps a Secret, 1989, Murder Times Two, 1990, Murder Saves Face, 1991, A Very Venetian Murder, 1992.
James Henry Duffy
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Princeton University (Bachelor of Arts, 1956). Harvard University (Bachelor of Laws, 1959).
Career
Associate, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, 1959-1967; partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, 1968-1988. Board directors Grove/Atlantic Monthly Press, Albanian-American Enterprise Fund.
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Dog Bites Man: City Shocked: A Novel
("Dog Bites Man" is a witty, tongue-in-cheek saga detailin...)
- Dog Bites Man: City Shocked: A Novel
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Dog Bites Man: City Shocked: A Novel
Other Work
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Author: Domestic Affairs: American Programs and Priorities, 1979, Dog Bites Man: City Shocked, 2001, (under pseudonym Haughton Murphy) Murder for Lunch, 1986, Murder Takes a Partner, 1987, Murders and Acquisitions, 1988, Murder Keeps a Secret, 1989, Murder Times Two, 1990, Murder Saves Face, 1991, A Very Venetian Murder, 1992.
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Membership
Member Mayor's Commission Cultural Affairs, 1981-1991. Board directors National Corporation Fund for Dance, Inc., 1981-1988, School American Ballet, Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Commonweal Magazine, Alliance for the Arts, New York City. Life trustee New York.Pub.
Library. Member Association of Bar of City of New York, Council Foreign Relations, Mystery Writers American (board directors 1986-1992, treasurer 1992), Authors Guild (member council since 1993), Crime Writers Association (United Kingdom), Century Association.
Connections
Married Martha McDowell, May 25, 1968 (deceased 1997).
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Political Party
Democrat
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1956
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1959