Roddy Doyle is an amazing writer and is seen by his friends as a studious-looking and down-to-earth kind of guy. He is one of the new breed of young Irish artists who came of age in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Roddy Doyle was born in May of 1958 in the northern Dublin suburb of Kilbarrack, Ireland. From Roddy Doyle’s point of view, he seemed to have had a happy childhood, especially when he told an …showed first 75 words of 865 total…

…showed last 75 words of 865 total…with both feet on the ground. “He still acts rather like a teacher…” John Rockwell observed. According to Mary Jordon, “ His favorite authors are American: Raymond Carver, Flannery O’Conner, and Anne Tyler,” writers who, in Doyle’s words, are “ more intrested in the characters than their own cleverness.” Truly Roddy Doyle is one of the great Irish writers, one of the new breed of writers who came of age in the 60’s and 70’s.