In 1956, he went on to write the best-selling novel and perhaps his most prominent work, Don't Go Near the Water, a comedy about United States Navy sailors serving in the South Pacific during World War II. In 1954, Brinkley wrote his only non-fiction book, The Deliverance of Sister Cecelia, a biography of a Slovakian nun based her memoirs as recited to him. In 1948, after his tenure as an officer in the United States Navy during World War II, Brinkley wrote and published his first novel, Quicksand, in 1948. Brinkley was also a member of the National Press Club until his death in 1993. He was also a staff writer, correspondent and assistant editor and for Life magazine from 1951 to 1958. Afterwards, Brinkley was a reporter for The Washington Post from 1941 to 1942 and from 1949 to 1951. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1940.Brinkley was an officer in the United States Navy during World War II, where he served in Europe and the Pacific, primarily in public relations duties.Īfter graduating from the University of Oklahoma in 1940, Brinkley went on to work for The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

And love is most interesting when it has survived terrible tests.”Ĭunningham’s previous novels, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, include “Specimen Days,” “By Nightfall” and “The Hours,” which won the Pulitzer for fiction in 1999 and was adapted into an Oscar winning movie of the same name.William Clark 'Bill' Brinkley was an American writer and journalist.īrinkley is perhaps best known for his 1988 novel, The Last Ship, and his 1956 novel, Don't Go Near the Water, which was later adapted to film in 1957 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as Don't Go Near the Water.īrinkley was born in Custer City, Oklahoma on September 10, 1917, the youngest of five children and the son of a minister. I’m deeply interested in love - a sense of happiness, of living the life that one has hoped to live. The author calls the new book “a story about people dealing with something terrible, and it’s about survival, but more centrally it’s a story about love. “But maybe it’s during hard times that the world needs novels more than ever.” “I’ve definitely had moments over the last 10 years when I thought, well, if the world is in this kind of shape, who needs a novel?” Cunningham said in a statement. The novel takes place on three separate days in April, one each in the years 2019-2021. Random House announced Monday that “Day” will be published in January. NEW YORK (AP) - The next novel from Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, his first in a decade, is a family saga set in New York City before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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