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Joe Connelly is an American writer. Connelly is best known for his first novel,
Bringing Out the Dead.
Connelly grew up in a working class family in Warwick, New York. He dropped out of
Colgate University and, before publishing his first novel, worked as a
paramedic at St. Clare's Hospital in Hell's Kitchen for about a decade. He wrote in his spare time over that period, in a small flat in the Upper West Side and while living abroad in Ireland and travelling in Eastern Europe for a considerable period. During this period Connelly was encouraged by a creative writing professor at
Columbia University.
Bringing Out the Dead (1998) is autobiographical in nature and follows the story of a paranoid and hollow-eyed paramedic who works the graveyard shift in
Hell's Kitchen, the barrio bounding the phantasmagoria of
Times Square. Having seen so much human suffering on the job, the main character of the book, Frank, has turned emotionally into himself, despondent to the point of becoming a drunk, his life a personal living hell.
Bringing Out the Dead was an immediate
bestseller on publication. It was soon optioned for $100,000 and eventually made its way to production as a major motion picture of the same name in
1999.
Bringing Out the Dead was directed by filmmaker
Martin Scorsese and the screenplay was adapted by
Paul Schrader. Though the film was a critical success, it fell short of box office expectations.
His second novel,
Crumbtown, didn't sell as well as the first. Although the book's characters were the trademark down-and-out personalities of Connelly's debut novel, he was criticized for relying on well-trodden clichés.
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