Background
Duffy, Michael P. was born on February 17, 1957 in Cranston, Rhode Island, United States.
Duffy, Michael P. was born on February 17, 1957 in Cranston, Rhode Island, United States.
University of Rhode Island (Bachelor of Arts, with highest honors, 1979). Harvard University (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1982). Phi Beta Kappa. Town Counsel, Upton, Massachusetts, since 1986.
He edited The Independent Monthly, a general magazine owned by Max Suich and John B Fairfax, from 1993 to 1996. Other authors included Les Murray, Mungo MacCallum and John Olsen. The company stopped publishing new titles in 2005.
Duffy presented American Broadcasting Company Radio National"s Counterpoint with the late Paul Comrie-Thomson and wrote for News Limited publications and then the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun Herald until June 2012.
He has written the true crime books Call Maine Cruel and Bad, but is best known for the novels The Tower, The Simple Death and Drive By. The latter was described in the Adelaide Review as: "a brilliant mix of reportage drawn from life observation and the novelist’s dramatic touch, to paint a portrait of crime and its effects – grief, confusion, loss, multiple levels of complicity – amongst Sydney’s contemporary Lebanese community.".
Member: Massachusetts Bar Association.