Harold Brodkey (October 25, 1930 – January 26, 1996) was an American author.
Brodkey was born in Staunton, Illinois and raised in University City, Missouri outside St. Louis. After graduating from Harvard University in 1952, Brodkey began his writing career by contributing short stories to The New Yorker and other magazines. His stories have won him two first-place O. Henry Awards. In 1993 Brodkey announced in The New Yorker that he had contracted AIDS. He later wrote This Wild Darkness about his battle with the disease. At the time of his death in 1996, he was living in New York City with his wife, novelist Ellen Brodkey.

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First Love and Other Sorrows (1958, ISBN 0-8050-6010-3)
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode (1988, ISBN 0-679-72431-1)
The World is the Home of Love and Death (1997, ISBN 0-8050-5999-7)