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℘℘℘ RECOMMENDED Providence College Professor of English Charles F. Duffy was planning to teach some Irish American fiction in one of his Modern Irish Literature classes. “Figuring Edwin O’Connor would loom large…I reread The Last Hurrah,” Duffy writes, “and then looked around for a biography of the author. To my surprise, no such book existed.” Duffy has changed that with his exemplary A Family of His Own: A Life of Edwin O’Connor. Beginning with O’Connor’s middleclass youth in a Rhode Island split between Irish and French Canadian Catholics, Duffy follows O’Connor to Notre Dame and the Coast Guard during World War II. Then there are years in radio (with little writing success) and Boston, which O’Connor would use as the (unnamed) setting for ....