found: His Birdy, 1978:t.p. (William Wharton)
found: Phone call to A. A. Knopf, inc.(William Wharton, pseud. of Albert Du Aimé, 1st book, lives in France, no other info. avail.)
found: His Birdy, 1992:t.p. (William Wharton) p. 511 (b. Philadelphia 1926; lists works)
found: New York times WWW site, Oct. 31, 2008(in obituary published Oct. 30: William Wharton; b. Albert William du Aime, Nov. 7, 1925, Philadelphia; moved to Europe, 1958; settled in Paris, 1968; d. Wednesday [Oct. 29, 2008], Encinitas, Calif., aged 82; successful impressionist painter who at 53 published his first novel, Birdy, which won a National Book Award, became a critically acclaimed movie, and led to a dozen more books)
notfound: Contmp. auth., v. 1-68;Contmp. novelists, 1976;WW France, 1977-78;Writers dir., 1976-78
