Property developer Harry Crosbie has been compared to Mark Twain by a Pulitzer prize-winning novelist, after the Dubliner penned a book of short stories about life in Dublin in the 1960s. Ford, whose novel Independence Day won a Pulitzer in 1996, said: "It'd be self-congratulating to say that if Crosbie the writer didn't exist we'd have to invent him. The book includes stories such as Eighteen and a half about a boy of "18 going on 12", says Crosbie. He added: "Harry Crosbie has done his native city, and its natives, more than proud." "Now I've discovered I can write, I'm going to sit down and write a book next year."

Source: Irish Independent December 06, 2020 02:35 UTC