Hubert Selby Jr.

Hubert Selby, Jr. (July 23, 1928 – April 26, 2004) was one of America's most acclaimed postwar writers. His work ranks as some of the most powerful literature written by an American author in the twentieth century.{{ref|nyt}} His best known work, Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) is recognized today as a classic.

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• {{note|nyt}} Selby was ranked as one of America's best writers by New York Times. The paper also compared his work to that of Dostoyevsky.
• {{note|ribs}} In the obituary, Selby's wife, Suzanne Selby, states that during the treatment the doctors removed a whole lung along with eleven ribs.
• {{note|sorrentino}} Selby dedicated his first work, Last Exit to Brooklyn, to Gilbert Sorrentino, with whom he grew up in Brooklyn.
• {{note|children}} Selby was married three times and had four children.
• {{note|demon}} The rights to The Demon have been purchased by director Jean-Jacques Beineix
• {{note|snow}} Song of the Silent Snow is a collection of fifteen stories that span the writing of more than two decades.
• {{note|exit}} Film Last Exit to Brooklyn. Directed by Uli Edel. Screenplay by Desmond Nakano. Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young and Jerry Orbach. Selby has a cameo appearance in the film as a taxi driver.
• {{note|requem}} Film Requiem for a Dream. Directed by Darren Aronofsky. Screenplay by Hubert Selby, Jr. Starring Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, and Marlon Wayans. Selby has a cameo appearance in the film as a Laughing Guard.
• {{note|better}} The title of this documentary is taken from page 103 of Selby's novel The Demon. The slash is included in Selby's typography.
• {{note|nyt}} Selby's first work "The Queen Is Dead" (appearing as a chapter in Last Exit) inspired the name of an album by Manchester pop group The Smiths, and became their most highly regarded LP.