My dad was a newspaperman, and still is, at age 92, a man of great grace and patience and dignity, and he taught me immensely valuable lessons.
Read the Bible once a year or so, ideally the King James, to be reminded that rhythm and cadence are your friends as a writer.
—Brian Doyle, writing in The American Scholar (August 23, 2013)[7]He studied at the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated with a major in English in 1978.
[3] Doyle's essays and poems have appeared in magazines and journals such as The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The American Scholar, Orion, Commonweal, and The Georgia Review and in newspapers such as The Times of London, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Kansas City Star, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Ottawa Citizen, and Newsday.
He was a book reviewer for The Oregonian and a contributing essayist to both Eureka Street magazine and The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Australia.