I'll Drop You a Line: A Life with David Marcus 

Ita Daly

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Book
€14.99

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Publication date: 2016

ISBN: 978-1-907535-77-2

Category: Memoir

Type: Paperback

Price: €14.99

David Marcus’s unerring eye for a good short story launched the careers of innumerable Irish fiction writers, including Neil Jordan, Dermot Bolger, Deirdre Madden, Clare Keegan and Ireland’s current laureate for fiction, Anne Enright.

Marcus (1924-2009) a Cork-born Jew, was a novelist and short story writer as well as an anthologist and editor. He established the weekly ‘New Irish Writing’ pages in the Irish Press in 1969 and was the newspaper’s literary editor for many years. Through ‘New Irish Writing’ he made an incalculable contribution to Irish literary life.

David Marcus was a late but fervent convert to marriage, a ‘mixed marriage’ to the writer Ita Daly. I’ll Drop You a Line, his habitual closing words in conversation with his authors, is Ita Daly’s story of David and her life with him, his final years of illness and the grief of his death. David and Ita have one daughter, Sarah.

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About the author

Ita Daly was born in County Leitrim but has spent most of her life in Dublin. She was an English teacher when she submitted a story to ‘New Irish Writing’ and met David Marcus in a Dublin pub (for coffee). Reader, she married him (in 1972). Ita won the Hennessy Literary Award and the Irish Times Short Story Competition and David Marcus (along with Philip MacDermott of Poolbeg Press) published her first, acclaimed, short story collection, The Lady with the Red Shoes, in 1980. She subsequently published four novels with Jonathan Cape/Bloomsbury.