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Evan Shelby Connell Jr. (August 17, 1924 – January 10, 2013) was a U.S. novelist, short-story writer, essayist and author of epic historical works. He also published under the name Evan S. Connell Jr.
Aug 16, 2024 · Forty years ago this week, the writer Evan S. Connell marked his 60th birthday with a feeling of confidence. His publisher, North Point Press, was on the verge of issuing his thirteenth book and the prospects, based on its advance industry reception and eager review inquiries, were promising.
Aug 13, 2024 · Evan S. Connell (born August 17, 1924, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.—died January 10, 2013, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American writer whose works explore philosophical and cultural facets of the American experience.
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Jan 25, 2018 · Connell’s 1969 novel “Mr. Bridge” focuses on the man behind the newspaper, but I’ve never entirely warmed to it. There was also a handsome 1990 Merchant-Ivory film, “Mr. and Mrs. Bridge ...
Jan 10, 2013 · We are sad to learn that Evan Connell has died. An early contributor to The Paris Review, Connell was and is a quiet hero of contemporary literature. His novels Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge have been cited as a crucial influence by writers as different as Lydia Davis, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith.
Jan 11, 2013 · American author Evan S Connell, whose novels inspired the Paul Newman film Mr and Mrs Bridge, has died aged 88.
Jan 14, 2013 · Evan S. Connell was found in his Santa Fe apartment, dead at the age of 88. He died alone, attended, one presumes, by the “cracked Old Mexican pots and mutilated statuettes” he collected — which is also how he lived and how he wrote: apart from his contemporaries, in the company of antiquities, as if he did not entirely belong ...
