PORTLAND, Ore.—Brian Doyle, award-winning author and editor of Portland Magazine, died May 27, , after a six-month battle with a brain tumor.
His funeral Mass will be at a.m. Friday, June 2, , at St. Mary's Cathedral in Portland.
Doyle, 60, is survived by his wife, Mary, their daughter, Lily, and twin sons Liam and Joseph.
"Brian exemplified God's grace by how he lived his life," said University of Portland President Rev. Mark L. Poorman, C.S.C. "He was a man filled with a sense of humanity and wonder, who was interested in everyone's story and who saw everyone’s potential. His warmth, humor and passion for life will be deeply missed."
Born in New York City in to James A. Doyle, a journalist, and Ethel Clancey Doyle, a teacher, Doyle grew up in a large Irish Catholic family in a home peppered with Irish Gaelic. He always knew he would be a writer and credits his start to his parents, whom he described as gifted raconteurs and storytellers. His father led the Catholic Press Association for thirty years, and Doyle's writings, like his father's, reflect his deep Catholic faith.
After earning a degree in English from the University of Notre Dame in , he went on to become
Brian Doyle was the long-time editor of the University of Portland's Portland Magazine, a quarterly publication that won Newsweek's Sibley Award in , as the best university magazine in America. The university awarded him an honorary doctorate during its graduation ceremony in early May. He was the author of numerous books of essays, fiction, poems, and nonfiction, among them the novels Mink River; The Plover; and the young adult novel, Martin Marten, winner of the Oregon Book Award and the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing. In , he was also the recipient of the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. As a poet, Doyle was known for his prose poems, which he called "proems," and his collections include A Shimmer of Something (Liturgical Press, ) and the recently released, The Kind of Brave You Wanted To Be (Liturgical Press, ). He is survived by his wife, Mary, and their daughter, Lily, and twin sons, Liam and Joseph. The family lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
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Doyle was the author of many books, among them: five collections of essays, two nonfiction books (The Grail, about a year in an Oregon vineyard, and The Wet Engine, about the "muddles & musics of the heart"), and two collections of "proems," most recently Thirsty for the Joy: Australian & American Voices. His novel Mink River was published by Oregon State University Press.
Doyle’s books have four times been finalists for the Oregon Book Award, and his essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Orion, The American Scholar, and in newspapers and magazines around the world. His essays have also been reprinted in the annual Best American Essays, Best American Science & Nature Writing, and Best American Spirit
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