Jim Murphy was born in Newark, New Jersey, on September 25, 1947, to James K. Murphy and Helen (nee Grosso) Murphy.
His father was a certified public accountant and his mother was an artist who worked as a bookkeeper. Murphy was not particularly interested in reading as a youngster, although he remembers enjoying horror stories, but he was athletically precocious and adventurous. As a teenager, he held a number of physically demanding jobs, and remembers construction work as his favorite job. He was also a nationally ranked high school sprinter who participated on two national champion relay teams. He became interested in literature in high school only after he discovered that there were books adults did not want him to read; this motivated him to find and read those books.
Murphy attended Rutgers University,.....
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