Hubert SelJr. was an American writer known for his novels Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, both adapted into films. He dropped out of school to join the Merchant Marines but was diagnosed with tuberculosis and developed an addiction to painkillers and heroin. He began writing without formal training and was compared to Jack Kerouac. He died in 2004 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Hubert SelJr., born July 23, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, was a 20th-century American writer. He is most famous for two novels: Last Exit to Brooklyn, published in 1964, and Requiem for a Dream, published in 1964. Both novels have both been adapted into films.
Hubert SelJr. was the son of Hubert SelSr. and Adalin Selby. Hubert Sr. was originally from Kentucky and worked as both a coal miner and a merchant mariner. When Hubert Jr. was fifteen, he dropped out of school to follow in his father’s professional footsteps, enlisting in the United States Merchant Marines.
Unfortunately, in a 1947 marine excursion, Hubert SelJr. was diagnosed with advanced tuberculosis. He was taken off the ship in Germany and sent back to the United States. At the time, the doctors he consulted with estimated that he had less than a year to live. For nearly four years, Hubert SelJr. he was treated at Marine Hospital in New York. He went through numerous therapies and procedures, some of them experimental, in an attempt to regain his health. Some of these treatments have done more harm than good. During this period, SelJr. he developed an addiction to painkillers and heroin that would plague him for decades thereafter.
Hubert SelJr. he had no academic credentials, little work experience, and poor health. Therefore, it was quite difficult for him to get employment, so he stayed at home with his young daughter while his wife worked. Without any formal training, he Selini started writing. He wrote himself angrily, with little planning or attention to grammar or punctuation. His work has been compared to the “spontaneous prose” of Jack Kerouac. Sel’s most famous works involve the underworld of New York City and Brooklyn, focusing on the lives of drug addicts, homosexuals, transvestites, thieves, hoodlums, and residents of public housing projects.
In the 1980s, Hubert SelJr. makes the acquaintance of the musician Henry Rollins, a great admirer. Rollins helped increase Selby’s readership. Despite his artistic success, the last years of the author’s life were marked by periods of depression and anger. Also, his lung problems continued throughout his life. Hubert SelJr. died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on April 26, 2004 in California.
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