He vaulted to literary prominence with a lacerating childhood memoir of abuse and wrote best-selling novels such as 'A Reliable Wife.”
The cause was pneumonia and complications from the coronavirus, said the actor and producer Bob Balaban, a friend of Mr. Goolrick’s since the 1970s, when they met on a Kool-Aid commercial.
He had spent much of his adulthood masking personal anguish through what, by all accounts, appeared to be outward achievement. He became an executive at major New York advertising firms such as AC&R and Grey, where he worked on glossy corporate campaigns.A droll raconteur and meticulous dresser from his John Lobb shoes to his Hermès ties, he was much in demand as a dinner-party guest.
An increasingly difficult colleague, Mr. Goolrick said he was “suddenly and vertiginously fired." He was subsequently institutionalized for months following a nervous breakdown, but he left with the conviction that he could become a writer, a long-held ambition. Writing, he added, was"giving to the world.
Robert Cooke Goolrick was born in Charlottesville on Aug. 4, 1948, and grew up in Lexington, Va., where his father taught history at the Virginia Military Institute. He graduated in 1970 with an English degree from Johns Hopkins University and initially pursued an interest in filmmaking on a fellowship that funded his travels to France, England and Greece.
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