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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox writer Clive Murphy (28 November 1935 – 17 June 2021) was a British author and social historian. He was well known for his "Ordinary Lives" series, in which he compiled individuals' oral histories and turned them into memoirs.[1]

Biography

Murphy was born in Liverpool in 1935. He was brought up and educated in Ireland where he qualified as a solicitor in 1958. In the same year, he emigrated to London, eventually settling in Spitalfields in the early 1970s. His Summer Overtures was joint winner of ADAM International ReviewШаблон:'s First Novel Award in 1972. Freedom for Mr. Mildew & Nigel Someone appeared to critical acclaim in one volume in 1975. A series of ten recorded autobiographies, the "Ordinary Lives" series, followed.[2] With the "Ordinary Lives" series he compiled individuals' oral histories and turned them into memoirs by voices that otherwise would not be heard.[1] The memoirs are based on interviews he taped with individuals who were residents of Spitalfields in the 1960s,[3] with Murphy writing them in the 1970s.[4]

After 1999 Murphy published ten books of gay, often comic, ribaldry. The tenth, To Hell with Thomas Bowdler, Mrs Grundy and Mary Whitehouse!, was published in 2015.[5]

Murphy died in June 2021, aged 85.[6]

Books

Novels

  • Summer Overtures (1972)
  • Freedom for Mr. Mildew & Nigel Someone (1975)

Ordinary Lives series

All the books in this series are edited by Clive Murphy and published under the subjects' own names.

  • The Good Deeds of a Good Woman by Beatrice Ali (1976)
  • Born to Sing by Alexander Hartog (1978)
  • Four Acres and a Donkey: the memoirs of a lavatory attendant by S. A. B. Rogers (1979)
  • Love, dears! The memoirs of a former chorus girl by Marjorie Graham (Dobson Books, 1980)[7] (new edition 2013 by Macmillan as Up in Lights)
  • Oiky: the memoirs of a pigman by Len Mills (1984)
  • At the Dog in Dulwich: recollections of a poet by Patricia Doubell (1986)
  • A Stranger in Gloucester: recollections of an Austrian in England by Mrs Falge-Wahl (1986)
  • A Funny Old Quist: the memoirs of a gamekeeper by Evan Rogers (1986; new edition by Eland in 2009)
  • Dodo by Dodo Lees (1993)
  • Endsleigh: memoirs of a river riverkeeper by Horace Adams (1994)

Ribald Rhymes

  • Sour Grapes (1999)
  • Cave canem (2002)
  • Orts and all: more ribald rhymes and gay doggery (2003)
  • Lust and malice: ribald rhymes and other verse (2005)
  • Sodomy is not enough! Ribald rhymes and other verse (2008)
  • Heavenly blue: rhymes more ribald (2009)
  • Gay abandon (2011)
  • On Pleasure Bent (2013)
  • Lock up your sons! (2014)
  • To Hell with Thomas Bowdler, Mrs Grundy and Mary Whitehouse! (2015)

References

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External links

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