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Evan s connell books5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() "To be that good in fiction, nonfiction and poetry is really, really remarkable. "We believe he's one of the most important postwar (WWII) American writers," Patrick Lannan said at the time. The Santa Fe-based Lannan Foundation awarded Connell its $100,000 Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2000. He once worked as an interviewer in an unemployment office in the San Francisco area, where he lived for more than three decades before moving to New Mexico in 1989. At times, he took odd-jobs to support his literary pursuits. He traveled to Europe, and lived briefly in Paris before returning to the United States in the mid-1950s. He studied creative writing at Stanford and Columbia universities, but unlike many authors he never taught, saying that campus life was too comfortable. Connell Penguin Modern Classics A policeman encountering Mrs Bridge on the home furnishings floor of a Kansas City department store recognises her at once for what she is: ‘a bona-fide. After the war, he returned to college and graduated from the University of Kansas in 1947 with a degree in English literature. But he left in 1943 to enlist in the Navy, becoming a pilot and flight instructor. He began writing while attending Dartmouth College. ![]()
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