D. Keith Mano
David Keith Mano (February 12, 1942[1] – September 14, 2016) was an American writer and political commentator, known for his work in National Review.
D. Keith Mano | |
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 Mano in 1971, photographed by Jill Krementz | |
| Born | David Keith Mano February 12, 1942 Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Died | September 14, 2016 (aged 74) Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Columbia University (BA) Clare College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Political commentator |
Early life
Mano attended Trinity School (where, he claimed, he converted to Episcopalianism in order to be eligible for a prize)[2] and Columbia University, where he studied under Lionel Trilling.[3]
He subsequently received a Kellett Fellowship[2] and spent a year at Clare College, where he studied under F. R. Leavis,[3] and performed as part of the Marlowe Society.[2]
Upon returning to the United States, he performed with the National Shakespeare Company while also managing his family's construction business.[2]
Writing
Mano's first novel, Bishop's Progress, was published in 1968. His next five novels were published one per year until 1973; Jeffrey Hart noted that Mano's seventh novel, Take Five, took nine years to write — which, in Hart's assessment, "wrecked [Mano] as a commercial possibility".[3] Mano later published two more novels, for a total of nine.[2]
From 1972 to 1989, Mano's column "The Gimlet Eye" was published in National Review,[4] where he was listed on the masthead;[2] he was also listed as a contributing editor at Playboy, and provided book reviews for Esquire and film reviews for Oui.[5]
In the 1980s, he began writing for television, and produced scripts for Monsters and LA Law[2] and Homicide: Life on the Street;[6] as well, he wrote the episode of St. Elsewhere for which Steve Allen was nominated for the 1987 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.[5]
Personal life
Mano was married to actress Laurie Kennedy,[5] and had two sons from his first marriage to Jo McArthur.[2]
In the 1970s he abandoned Episcopalianism for a variety of reasons, reportedly including his refusal to be given the Eucharist by a woman.[1] He subsequently joined the Eastern Orthodox Church.[5][1]
In the mid-1990s, Mano developed Parkinson's disease.[2]
Publications
- Bishop's Progress : A Novel (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1968)
- Horn (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1969)
- War Is Heaven! (Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1970)
- Death and Life of Harry Goth (New York : Knopf, 1971)
- Proselytizer (New York : Knopf, 1972)
- Bridge (Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1973)
- Take Five (Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1982)
- Topless (New York : Random House, 1991)
- The Fergus Dialogues: A Meditation on the Gender of Christ (International Scholars Publications, 1998)
References
- Keith Mano, Christian novelist who explored extremes of sex and faith, dies at 74, by Matt Schudel, in The Washington Post; published September 21, 2016; retrieved May 5, 2021
- D. Keith Mano, a Novelist Who Tackled Christianity, Sex and More, Dies at 74, by William Grimes, in The New York Times; published September 20, 2016; retrieved May 5, 2021
- The Achievement of D. Keith Mano, by Jeffrey Hart, in The Sewanee Review; volume 110, number 2 (Spring 2002); p. 289-297
- The Gimlet-Eyed, by Richard Brookhiser, in National Review; published November 7, 2016; retrieved May 5, 2021
- He keeps his eyes open in topless clubs, by Dave Matheny, in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune; published September 21, 1991; retrieved May 5, 2021, via ProQuest
- doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.2001.3404_137.x: "The Existential Condition of Television Crime Drama", by Philip J. Lane; in The Journal of Popular Culture; published March 5, 2004