The father was a respected professor, the mother a witty and elegant lady, someone everyone loved.
To all appearances, he and his family lived an almost idyllic life. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal.įor one little boy, however, life had become anything but "normal." 1.Ĭritic Ron Charles, writing in The Washington Post, called “A Reliable Wife” “a Gothic tale of such smoldering desire it should be read in a cold shower” and “deliciously wicked and tense, presented as a series of sepia tableaux, interrupted by flashes of bright red violence.It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemed possible. It spent nearly a year in 20 on The New York Times’ trade paperback bestseller list, including three weeks at No.
After its success (it has sold about 40,000 hardcover, paperback and e-book copies), Algonquin purchased “A Reliable Wife,” which turned into a blockbuster, selling more than 1 million copies. “So I wrote the first chapter of the memoir - and kept on going.”Īlthough he completed the novel first, Goolrick’s memoir was the first to be acquired and published, by Algonquin. “I had worked for a long time on ‘A Reliable Wife,’ and when I finished, I found I couldn’t stop writing,” Goolrick told Publishers Weekly in 2009. A wealthy businessman advertises for a wife - for “practical, not romantic reasons” - but the woman who responds is beautiful, not plain as he had expected, and eventually reveals herself to be deceitful and dangerous. He soon started work on his first novel, “A Reliable Wife,” an erotic story set in rural Wisconsin in 1907. When Grey fired him in 2002, Goolrick reinvented himself as a writer. “When I was young I suppose I had a good deal of talent and imagination, but I really didn’t have any direction.” “I think advertising takes people who have talent but no specific ambition and uses their talent specific ways,” he told an interviewer in 2013. “We had to do something far out.”Īdvertising taught him to write economically, but it did not satisfy him. “Our research showed that people who drink Foster’s think of themselves as unusual, not part of the crowd,” Goolrick told The Sydney Morning Herald. When they are served Foster’s by a robot bartender, their heads spin around and their costumes fly off, revealing down-to-earth guys. Watson Fellowship grants to study abroad, spending time in France, England and Greece.Īfter a series of jobs in New York City, he settled into a career as an advertising copywriter, rising to executive positions at AC&R Advertising and Grey Advertising (now the Grey Group) and working on campaigns for products including Mumm Champagne and Foster’s beer.Ī commercial he created for Foster’s in 1990 featured a group of men wearing futuristic clothes and plastic masks.
He graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor’s degree in English in 1970 and received two Thomas J.
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