Abstract
In 1956 when he was thirty-three years old, Purdy spurred by kind of psychic impulse sent a privately published collection of his fiction to Dame Edith Sitwell, whom he did not know. In what must have seemed to the unknown author a more or less miraculous letter of reply, Sitwell declared Purdy writer of genius and offered to introduce his work to a commercial publisher in England, who soon published it to critical acclaim (An Autobiographical Sketch). American publishers then competed for the right to publish the work that they had spurned earlier, and Purdy found himself, for a period of several years and novels, a critical, if not a financial, success as an author. But he was not to remain in the media and critical establishments' good graces for long, as he relates:
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