Russell Banks (1940–2023)
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The oldest of four children, Russell Banks spent his childhood and adolescence in New Hampshire and Eastern Massachusetts. His blue collar, working class background is strongly reflected in his writing. The first in his family to attend college, Banks studied at Colgate University and later visa mer graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill. While he was establishing himself as a writer, Banks spent time as a plumber, shoe salesman, and a window dresser. Banks's titles include Searching for Survivors, Family Life, Hamilton Stark, The New World, The Book of Jamaica, Trailerpark, The Relation of My Imprisonment, Continental Drift, Success Stories, Affliction, The Sweet Hereafter and Dreaming Up America. Banks has also written numerous poems, stories, and essays. Banks is the recipient of several awards and prizes. Among his accolades are the St. Lawrence Award for Short Fiction, the John Dos Passos Award, and the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1986, Continental Drift was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Verk av Russell Banks
Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story (in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties - RAVENEL) 2 exemplar
Martin Luther: renegade and prophet 2 exemplar
Russel Banks : Coffret en 3 volumes : Sous le règne de Bone ; De beaux lendemains ; American Darling (2008) 1 exemplar
The Moor (in Birthday Stories - MURAKAMI) 1 exemplar
Plains of Abraham 1 exemplar
On the Road [screenplay] 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 504 exemplar
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 451 exemplar
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Inledning — 377 exemplar
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 345 exemplar
The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 339 exemplar
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 300 exemplar
The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 251 exemplar
Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 179 exemplar
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 132 exemplar
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 72 exemplar
High Infidelity: 24 Great Short Stories About Adultery by Some of Our Best Contemporary Authors (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 32 exemplar
The Best of the Best American Mystery Stories: The First Ten Years (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
The Hurly Burly and Other Stories (2021) — Förord, vissa utgåvor; Redaktör, vissa utgåvor — 9 exemplar
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Fire Exit, 4 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Christmas 1968: 14 poets — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Truck 21, A 50th Birthday Celebration For Jonathan Williams — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Banks, Russell Earl
- Födelsedag
- 1940-03-28
- Avled
- 2023-01-07
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Newton, Massachusetts, USA
- Dödsort
- Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
- Dödsorsak
- cancer
- Bostadsorter
- Newton, Massachusetts, USA
New York State, USA - Utbildning
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Yrken
- auteur
dichter - Relationer
- Twichell, Chase (echtg.)
- Organisationer
- International Parliament of Writers (President)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1998) - Priser och utmärkelser
- John Dos Passos Prize (1985)
State Author of New York/Edith Wharton Citation of Merit (2004-06)
Artist-in-Residence, University of Maryland
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1986) - Agent
- Ellen Levine
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Statistik
- Verk
- 38
- Även av
- 45
- Medlemmar
- 10,855
- Popularitet
- #2,183
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 298
- ISBN
- 374
- Språk
- 12
- Favoritmärkt
- 38
Nothing about grief is simple. For people, families, or communities. Banks writes it all here.