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Banks was being treated for cancer

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, has died. He was 82.

Banks, a professor emeritus at Princeton University, died Saturday in upstate New York. His works include "Affliction" and "The Sweet Hereafter."

Banks was being treated for cancer

Banks, a professor emeritus at Princeton University, died Saturday in upstate New York. His works include "Affliction" and "The Sweet Hereafter."

Banks, a professor emeritus at Princeton University, died Saturday in upstate New York. His works include "Affliction" and "The Sweet Hereafter."

Banks was being treated for cancer

This week, we've lowered the paywall on Billy Wilder, Deborah Eisenberg, Chase Twichell, and Hilton Als.

Author Russell Banks In one respect, the coronavirus pandemic — freighted with a monk-like mantra of distancing and isolation — has been a boon to upstate New York author Russell Banks. Foregone, his 19th work of fiction, is out this month. Denied his usually busy travel routine, Banks completed another book — having researched the topic in pre-pandemic times — and is working on a long-form story about the cult of Trumpism. "This is the fa...