FILE – Russell Banks, author of “Cloudsplitter”, delivers the keynote address at the Hemingway & Winship Awards ceremony April 4, 2004 at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston. Writing as “Affliction” and “Sweet Afterlife” in his native northeastern winter rural community, the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to radical abolitionist John Brown. and passed away on Saturday, January 7, 2023. He was 82 years old.
NEW YORK (AP) — Russell Banks is an award-winning fiction writer whose novels, such as The Agony and The Sweet Hereafter, are rooted in the wintery rural areas of his hometown Northeast, transcending everyone’s dreams from the modern blue. I imagined the downfall. Radical abolitionist John Brown’s collar worker has died. he was 82 years old.
Banks, a professor emeritus at Princeton University, died Saturday in upstate New York, his editor Dan Halpern told The Associated Press. Banks was being treated for cancer, Halpern said.
Born in Newton, Massachusetts and raised in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Banks is the self-proclaimed heir to 19th-century writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman, aspiring to the high arts and deeply conscious of the national spirit. I was. He was the son of a plumber and frequently wrote about working-class families and those who died trying to escape.
Although Banks lived part of the year in Florida and had a home in Jamaica for a period of time, he was basically a Northerner with a sense of old Puritan results. Be it the upstate New York community torn apart by the bus accident in “Sweet Hereafter,” or the desperate, divorced New Hampshire cop undone by his paranoid fantasies in “Affliction.” , snow often fell on his fiction.
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