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Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who 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 was being treated for cancer
NEW YORK -- 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, a professor emeritus at Princeton University, died Saturday in upstate New York. His works include "Affliction" and "The Sweet Hereafter."
Banks was a Pulitzer finalist for “Cloudsplitter” in 1999 and had been one 13 years earlier for “Continental Drift.” Read more at Boston.com.