cum laude in 1952, Brodkey married his first wife, Joanna Brown, a Radcliffe graduate and, in 1953 their only child, Ann Emily Brodkey was born. Brodkey would chronicle his life with his adoptive parents and sister in his short stories and his novel, The Runaway Soul.Īfter graduating from Harvard University with an A.B. Doris and Joseph lived in University City, Missouri, with their daughter, Marilyn Ruth Brodkey (1923-2011). When their birth mother Celia died, Samuel Weintraub was four and old enough to remain with his father but Aaron Weintraub, only two years old, was adopted by his father's cousin, Doris Rubenstein Brodkey (1896-1949) and her husband, Joseph Brodkey (1896-1946) and renamed Harold Roy Brodkey. Harold Brodkey (Octo– January 26, 1996), born Aaron Roy Weintraub, was an American short-story writer and novelist.īrodkey was the second child born in Staunton, Illinois, to Max Weintraub and Celia Glazer Weintraub (1899-1932) Samuel Weintraub (1928-2017) was their oldest child.
