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Kildare was born on New York"s Lower East Side in 1864. His Irish immigrant father died three months before his birth, and his mother, a French immigrant, died soon after his birth.
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Kildare was born on New York"s Lower East Side in 1864. His Irish immigrant father died three months before his birth, and his mother, a French immigrant, died soon after his birth.
Educated in evening classes of public schools, Cooper Union lectures, private instruction, Young Men's Christian Association courses after 30. In 1871 was a newsboy of the gang of which Timothy Doctorate. Sullivan, congressman, of New York, was leader. Was pugilist, professional athlete, soldier of fortune, filibuster, manager of sporting and theatrical ventures, 1880-1894.
Dock laborer, freight handler and truck driver from 1884.
Became practical reformer of the slum district, 1900. Contributor for Herald, Press, Telegraph, World, et cetera, 1901.
Associate editor Pearson’s Magazine In Brazilian Revolution shipped from Key West as captain of marines in Republican Brazilian Navy. Served as sergeant Legion des Étrangers, Algiers.
In 1901 general of Army of Liberation, Venezuela, in unsuccessful revolution against President Castro.
Sentenced to be shot. Now president Kildare Publishing Company.
His short stories and novels described the grim realities of life in a New York City slum. Often heard to comment that he was "born in the gutter," he was known as "the Mr. Bounderby of American Letters," and "the Kipling of the Bowery." He was raised by a foster family until the age of seven when he began life on his own.
He then sold newspapers on a crew managed by Timothy Sullivan.
He could not read or write until he was 30 years old. During Kildare"s life, The New York Times suggested that his name was a pseudonym.
Then in one of Kildare"s obituaries, The Times printed a conversation with "Red" Shaughnessy, a regular at "The Doctor"s Bar" in the Bowery, who claimed that Kildare was really Thomas Carroll. According to Shaughnessy, Carroll had been born in Carrollton, Maryland, into a branch of the influential Carroll family.
He ran away from home and became a newspaper hawker and fighter, preferring a tough life in the Bowery to that in a comfortable Baltimore suburb.
The Literary Digest suggested that the alternate details might be the work of a clever newspaper writer Kildare began earning money as a prize fighter, and later he became a bouncer and a bartender in the Bowery. In 1901 he participated in a failed coup to depose Venezuelan dictator Cipriano Castro, and after returning to New York he wrote short stories for magazines and newspapers.
He became an associate editor of Pearson"s Magazine and later started the short-lived Kildare Publishing Company.
Two women in his life helped Kildare in his writing. Kildare then met Leita Russell Bogartus, a writer who helped him edit and publish some of his work.
Kildare and playwright Walter C. Hackett adapted My Mamie Rose, Kildare"s first major work and autobiography, for the stage in 1908, starring actor Arnold Daly. The production was titled Regeneration, and Kildare became angry and despondent after seeing Daly"s interpretation of his character.
Then after a fall in the subway, Kildare suffered a mental breakdown.
He was placed in Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital and later moved to Bloomingdale Insane Asylum. From the time of his incarceration in 1908 until his death, he would not leave the psychiatric hospital system. He died after a seizure in 1911 at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center.
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