Vincent Virga

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Born (1942-09-28) September 28, 1942 (age 82)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Editor
  • writer
EducationSt. Bonaventure University (BA)
Yale School of Drama
PartnerJames McCourt
Vincent Virga
"The central photo was taken by Laura Rubin a long time ago, and the ones on the far right were taken even longer ago: Jimmy McCourt in Central Park the summer before we met at Yale in '64 and me getting on a boat in Amsterdam in '65." Vincent Virga
"The central photo was taken by Laura Rubin a long time ago, and the ones on the far right were taken even longer ago: Jimmy McCourt in Central Park the summer before we met at Yale in '64 and me getting on a boat in Amsterdam in '65." Vincent Virga
Born (1942-09-28) September 28, 1942 (age 82)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Editor
  • writer
EducationSt. Bonaventure University (BA)
Yale School of Drama
PartnerJames McCourt

Vincent Virga (born September 28, 1942) is a gay American-born editor and writer. He is the author of the novels Gaywyck (1980), A Comfortable Corner (1982), and Vadriel Vail (2001). His life partner since 1964 is fellow writer James McCourt. McCourt's and Virga's papers are held at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.[1]

Vincent Virga was born and grew up in New York City. In 1952 the family moved to Lindenhurst, New York.[2]

Virga attended St. Bonaventure University, (B.A., 1964) and Yale University (1964-1965). In 1964 at Yale he met fellow student James McCourt, who was to become his life partner.[1] They were both enrolled in the acting program at Yale School of Drama, but Virga was not happy with the teaching at Yale, and therefore he and McCourt left to explore the theater scene in London. They lived in London from 1964 to 1967 and again from 1969 to 1971, both doing odd-jobs.[3] Virga first job was as a typesetter at The New York Review of Books.[2]

Virga and McCourt moved to New York City in the 1970s, where they currently live, in the same apartment they have rented since that time. [4] They also spend time in Washington, D.C. (for Virga's work at the Library of Congress), and Ireland (where Virga has the role of United States Representative of the Jackie Clarke Collection in Ballina, County Mayo).[5][6]

Vincent Virga was a friend of Susan Sontag[7] (whom he met while working as a typesetter at The New York Review of Books)[2] and poet James Schuyler.[8] Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations (2007) is dedicated to Sontag, McCourt and Victoria de los Angeles, a friend of both McCourt and Virga.[2]

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