Russell Banks dead: 'Affliction,' 'Sweet Hereafter' author was 82
‘All his work is exceptional,” Joyce Carol Oates said of his fiction.
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‘All his work is exceptional,” Joyce Carol Oates said of his fiction.
Russell Banks, the award-winning writer of such novels as "Affliction," "The Sweet Hereafter" and "Cloudsplitter," has died of cancer at 82.
Banks was being treated for cancer
Russell Banks, an award-winning American fiction writer who rooted such novels as Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter in the wintry, rural communities of the northeastern states has died. He was 82.
<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="http://www.metro.us/russell-banks-praised-author-of-cloudsplitter-dies-at-82/"></div>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,” has died. He was 82. Banks, […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter ...