User:GraceStoen/Brian Doyle Author

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 * name        = Brian Doyle
 * birth_date  = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1956|11|11}}
 * birth_place = New York, New York, U.S.
 * death_date  = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|2017|5|20|1922|11|11}}
 * death_place = Portland, New York, U.S.
 * occupation  = Writer
 * years_active = 1951–2007
 * nationality = American
 * alma_mater  = {{hlist|[[University of Notre Dame]|
 * genre       = {{hlist|fiction|Gallows humor|}}
 * movement    = Postmodernism
 * spouse      = {{unbulleted list | {{marriage|Mary Millerend=div}}}}}}
 * signature   =

Brian James Patrick Doyle (1956-May 27th 2017) was an American writer and editor of the Portland Magazine at the University of Portland in Oregon.

Early Life

Brian James Patrick Doyle was born in New York City in 1956, into a large Irish-Catholic family with six brothers and one sister. His mother, Ethel Clancey Doyle, was a teacher, and his father, James A. Doyle, was a journalist and the executive director of the Catholic Press Association.

In 1991, Brian Doyle was named the editor of Portland, which he guided to national recognition, most notably with Newsweek’s Sibley Award in 2005. Under his leadership, the magazine published essays not just about the University of Portland but also about beauty, faith, and nature, written by such contributors as Ursula K. Le Guin, David James Duncan, Cornel West, Ian Frazier, James Mattis, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Doyle himself.

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