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Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940 in Newton,
Massachusetts) is an American
writer of fiction and poetry.
Life
Banks lives in upstate New York, and has been named a New York
State Author. He is presently also Artist-in-Residence at the University of
Maryland. He attended the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill[1][2].
Career
Russell Banks is a member of the International Parliament of
Writers and a member of the American Academy of
Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty
languages and has received numerous international prizes and
awards. He has written fiction, and more recently, non-fiction,
with Dreaming up America. His main works include the
novels Continental Drift,
Rule of
the Bone, Cloudsplitter, The Sweet
Hereafter, and Affliction. The latter two novels
were each made into feature films in 1997 ( see Affliction and The Sweet
Hereafter).
Many of Banks' works reflect his working-class upbringing. His
stories often show people facing tragedy and downturns in everyday
life, expressing sadness and self-doubt, but also showing
resilience and strength in the face of their difficulties. Banks
has also written short stories, some of which appear in the
collection The Angel on the Roof, as well as poetry. He has written a movie
adaptation of Jack
Kerouac's On the
Road for producer Francis Ford Coppola, which was
slated for production in 2006. [3] It is
not known if Banks's screenplay will be used in the final version.
Banks's novel The Darling is going to be made into a
feature film directed by Martin Scorsese, with Cate Blanchett in
the main role.[4] Banks
was the 1985 recipient of the John Dos Passos
Prize for fiction.
Bibliography
- 1974 Snow (poetry)
- 1975 Searching for Survivors (short story
collection)
- 1975 Family Life (novel)
- 1978 The New
World (short story collection)
- 1978 Hamilton Stark (novel)
- 1980 The Book of Jamaica (novel)
- 1981 Trailerpark (short story collection)
- 1983 The Relation of My Imprisonment (novel)
- 1985 Continental Drift
(novel)
- 1986 Success Stories (short story
collection)
- 1989 Affliction (novel)
- 1991 The Sweet Hereafter
(novel)
- 1995 Rule of the Bone (novel)
- 1998 Cloudsplitter (novel)
- 1998 Invisible Stranger (nonfiction)
- 2000 The Angel on the Roof (short story
collection)
- 2004 The Darling (novel)
- 2008 The Reserve (novel)
- 2008 Dreaming Up America (nonfiction)
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