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Russell Earl Banks (March 28, 1940 – January 8, 2023) was an American writer of fiction and poetry. His novels are known for "detailed accounts of domestic strife and the daily struggles of ordinary often-marginalized characters". [1]
Jan 9, 2023 · The novelist Russell Banks, who died Sunday at 82 in New York, spent a six-decade career building on a handful of favorite themes: the death of childhood innocence; the depredations of...
Jan 10, 2023 · American novelist and activist Russell Banks died on Sunday of cancer at the age of 82. Banks built an A-list literary career writing about working-class families and immigrants who struggle on...
Jan 8, 2023 · Russell Banks, whose vivid portrayals of working-class Americans grappling with issues of poverty, race and class placed him among the first ranks of contemporary novelists, died on Sunday at his...
Jan 8, 2023 · NEW YORK (AP) — Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as “Affliction” and “The Sweet Hereafter” in the wintry, rural communities of his native Northeast and imagined the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to the radical abolitionist John Brown in “Cloudsplitter ...
Jan 8, 2023 · Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as “Affliction” and “The Sweet Hereafter” in the wintry, rural communities of his native Northeast and imagined the dreams...
Jan 13, 2023 · Russell Banks, who wrote 21 books, including fiction, short fiction and non-fiction, passed away from cancer on Jan. 8. He was a distinguished member of the creative writing program at Princeton University, where he taught from 1982 to 1998.
