Maurice Duggan

Maurice Noel Duggan was born in Auckland on 25 November 1922 and grew up on the North Shore, the son of an Irish immigrant; he lost his mother early. In 1940, osteomyelitis cost him his left leg, and the immobility awakened his desire to write; Frank Sargeson became his mentor. Married in 1946, he lived for two years in London from 1950 and contracted tuberculosis in Spain. The second holder of the Burns Fellowship in 1960, he entered advertising in 1961, sat on the board of an agency and left it in 1972. He died of cancer on 11 December 1974.

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• Short storiesImmanuel's Land: StoriesImmanuel's LandMaurice Duggan · 1956Literature