Bruce Michael Duffy was an American author.
He was best known for his novel The World As I Found It, a fictionalized account of the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein, a 20th-century philosopher.
Bruce Duffy was born on June 9, 1951, in Washington, D.C. He is the son of Irish-American parents and lived his entire childhood in Garrett Park, Maryland.
For all the compliments he received in his mid-30s, Mr. Duffy produced only three novels, with long gaps between the publication of each, the fruits of a career in which he wrote primarily on the side while earning a living as a security guard, corporate consultant and speechwriter.
Bruce Duffy’s Novels are Last Comes the Egg, Disaster Was My God: A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud and The World As I Found It.
In 1988, Duffy won a Whiting Award and received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Bruce Duffy Cause Of Death
According to Bruce Duffy’s daughter Kate Duffy, he passed away on February 10, 2022 in hospice care in Rockville, Maryland with complications of brain cancer, which was diagnosed in 2011.
He was 70 years old at the time of his death.