Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940 in Newton, Massachusetts) is an American writer of fiction and poetry.
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.
Russell Banks is a member of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His wor...
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Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940 in Newton, Massachusetts) is an American writer of fiction and poetry.
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.
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...
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