Michael Snyder, an assistant teaching professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma, is completing a biography of James Purdy. Snyder is the author of John Joseph Mathews: Life of an Osage Writer (University of Oklahoma Press) and editor and co-author of Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century, which features lost writings by Mathews (Lehigh University Press).

Michael Snyder

“Maggoty Urgings Toward Revenge”: Edward Albee’s Adaptation of James Purdy’s “Malcolm”

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Michael Snyder, an assistant teaching professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma, is completing a biography of James Purdy. Snyder is the author of John Joseph Mathews: Life of an Osage Writer (University of Oklahoma Press) and editor and co-author of Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century, which features lost writings by Mathews (Lehigh University Press).

Michael Snyder

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“Maggoty Urgings Toward Revenge”: Edward Albee’s Adaptation of James Purdy’s “Malcolm”