Name John Hawkes Role Novelist | Period 1949-1997 Movies The Blood Oranges Literary movement Postmodernism | |
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Born John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes, Jr.August 17, 1925Stamford ( 1925-08-17 ) Genres Avant-gardeExperimental literature Notable works The CannibalThe Lime Twig Awards Prix Medicis etranger, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, Lannan Literary Award for Fiction Books The Lime Twig, The Cannibal, Second Skin, The beetle leg, The Blood Oranges Similar People Philip Haas, Rick Moody, Djuna Barnes, Jurg Laederach, Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
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John Hawkes, born John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes, Jr. (August 17, 1925 – May 15, 1998), was a postmodern American novelist, known for the intensity of his work, which suspended some traditional constraints of narrative fiction.
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John hawkes death sleep and the traveler book review
Biography
Born in Stamford, Connecticut, and educated at Harvard University. Although he published his first novel, The Cannibal, in 1949, it was The Lime Twig (1961) that first won him acclaim. Thomas Pynchon is said to have admired the novel. His second novel, The Beetle Leg (1951), an intensely surrealistic Western set in a Montana landscape, came to be viewed by many critics as one of the landmark novels of 20th-century American literature.
Hawkes taught English at Harvard from 1955 to 1958 and at Brown University from 1958 until his retirement in 1988. Among his students at Harvard and Brown were Rick Moody, Jeffrey Eugenides, and William Melvin Kelley.
Hawkes died in Providence, Rhode Island.