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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 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 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, 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...
Jan 13, 2023 · Russell Banks, the author whose bestselling books include "Affliction," "Continental Drift" and "The Sweet Hereafter," died of cancer Sunday. He was 82 years old. Banks was born in 1940 and...
- Terry Gross
Jan 8, 2023 · Prize-winning author Russell Banks has died. He was 82. His editor says Banks, who was being treated for cancer, died Saturday in upstate New York.
Jan 10, 2023 · Russell Banks, a writer who drew from his own meager upbringing to explore the tragedy and dignity of working-class life in novels and short stories that were among the most celebrated works of...
