Russell Banks: Quick Facts


Facts

Born March 28, 1940 • Newton • Massachusetts
Died January 8, 2023 (aged 82) • Saratoga Springs • New York
Notable Works “A Permanent Member of the Family • “Affliction” • “Cloudsplitter” • “Continental Drift” • “Dreaming Up America” • “Foregone” • “Lost Memory of Skin” • “Rule of the Bone” • “The Angel on the Roof” • “The Book of Jamaica” • “The Darling” • “The New World” • “The Relation of My Imprisonment” • “The Reserve” • “The Sweet Hereafter” • “Trailerpark” • “Voyager” • “Waiting to Freeze”

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Tillie Olsen
American author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Wendell Berry, wearing a tan suit and patterned tie, smiles while seated among other attendees at a conference, holding papers in his hand.
Wendell Berry
American author
John Updike
John Updike
American author
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver
American author and activist
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
Robert Coover
Robert Coover
American author
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Jessamyn West
American writer
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Meridel Le Sueur
American author
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
American author
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
James Baldwin stands against a plain background in a dress shirt and tie, arms crossed, holding a cigarette, looking directly at the camera.
James Baldwin
American author
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Portrait of John Steinbeck in a suit and tie, looking downward with a serious expression.
John Steinbeck
American novelist
Alice Walker smiling and wearing glasses, a beaded necklace, and a burgundy velvet top at the opening of The Color Purple in New York City.
Alice Walker
American writer
Percival Everett, 2012
Percival Everett
American author
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet