Then came “The Ginger Man” and a host of other books, and now Donleavy’s name is known all over the world. But it’s that first book – a wild ride through Trinity’s cellars and Dublin ...

It is a fairly gruesome little story." Mr Depp is the movie star Johnny Depp, a great admirer of Donleavy's who claims that without The Ginger Man there would have been no Hunter S Thompson.

J.P. Donleavy, the incorrigible Irish American author and playwright whose ribald debut novel “The Ginger Man” met scorn, censorship and eventually celebration as a groundbreaking classic ...

"The Ginger Man," penned by Irish American author J.P. Donleavy around 1951, received some early feedback from Donleavy's pal Brendan Behan who told him: "This book of yours is going to go around ...

J.P. Donleavy’s life will funnel down into an obituary headline: ” `Ginger Man’ Author Dead at (fill in number).” And a worthy life it will have been, because “The Ginger Man” is a ...

However, it was in the pubs and boltholes of bohemian Dublin that this education was to take place, and the resulting thesis was The Ginger Man. JP Donleavy’s classic novel, first published in ...

JP Donleavy is nearly 90 years old. His most famous book, The Ginger Man, is 60 years old and has sold 45m copies. Emily Hourican recalls her last encounter with the author at his once-beautiful ...

The bestselling author of The Ginger Man, JP Donleavy, has left more than €2m in his will. The writer, who was a personal friend of hell-raising Hollywood actor Johnny Depp, lived most of his ...

LONDON — J.P. Donleavy, the incorrigible Irish-American author and playwright whose ribald debut novel “The Ginger Man” met scorn, censorship and eventually celebration as a groundbreaking ...

J.P. Donleavy, an Irish American novelist whose 1955 debut, “The Ginger Man,” was rejected by 45 publishers for its scabrous, sexually explicit content but eventually sold more than 45 million ...