Portland Writer Brian Doyle Dies At 60 - Willamette Week.
BRIAN DOYLE (1956-2017) was the longtime editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland, in Oregon. He was the author of six collections of essays, two nonfiction books, two collections of “proems,” the short story collection Bin Laden’s Bald Spot, the novella Cat’s Foot, and the novels Mink River, The Plover, and Martin Marten.The author of over two dozen books, Doyle was also the longtime editor of Portland, the University of Portland’s alumni magazine. Brian James Patrick Doyle was born in New York City in 1956, into a large Irish-Catholic family with six brothers and one sister.Celebrated local writer Brian Doyle died in 2017. A posthumous collection of his essays comes out this month. We asked Jessica Murphy Moo, his successor at University of Portland’s Portland magazine, to weigh in on his legacy—on and off the page. When my students in Seattle would start to wrestle with the slippery concept of a writer’s “voice”—how do we find our voice? how do we.
The University of Portland Magazine. by Father Kevin Grove, C.S.C. Tonight, we are going after God, and we will take up that adventure by means of desire and memory, in that order.Portland Writer Brian Doyle Dies At 60 Novelist, essayist and editor of Portland magazine leaves behind large body of work, many friends. Brian Doyle (courtesy UP). His essays appeared in.
From Doyle’s publisher: Brian Doyle (1956-2017) was the longtime editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland, in Oregon. He was the author of six collections of essays, two nonfiction books, two collections of “proems,” the short story collection Bin Laden’s Bald Spot, the novella Cat’s Foot, and the novels Mink River, The Plover, and Martin Marten.
