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Occupation
  
writer

Genre
  
short story, novel

Movies
  
The Babysitter

Period
  
1960sā€“

Children
  
Sara C. Caldwell

Alma mater
  
Indiana University

Role
  
Author

Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Robert Coover


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Born
  
February 4, 1932 (age 92) Charles City, Iowa, United States (
1932-02-04
)

Spouse
  
Maria del Pilar Sans Mallafre (1959ā€“)

Education
  
University of Chicago (1965), Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University

Awards
  
Rea Award for the Short Story

Nominations
  
National Book Award for Fiction

Books
  
The Public Burning, The Origin of the Brunists, Pricksongs & Descants, The Universal Baseball, The Brunist Day of Wrath

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Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American novelist, short story writer, and T.B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.

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Life and works

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Coover was born in Charles City, Iowa. He attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale, received his B.A. in Slavic Studies from Indiana University in 1953, then served in the United States Navy. He received an M.A. in General Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago in 1965. In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. Coover has served as a teacher or writer in residence at many universities. He taught at Brown University from 1981 to 2012.

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Coover's wife is the noted needlepoint artist Pilar Sans Coover. They have three children, including Sara Caldwell.

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Coover's first novel was The Origin of the Brunists, in which the sole survivor of a mine disaster starts a religious cult. His second book, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., deals with the role of the creator. The eponymous Waugh, a shy, lonely accountant, creates a baseball game in which rolls of the dice determine every play, and dreams up players to attach those results to.

Coover's best-known work, The Public Burning, deals with the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in terms that have been called magic realism. Half of the book is devoted to the mythic hero Uncle Sam of tall tales, dealing with the equally fantastic Phantom, who represents international Communism. The alternate chapters portray the efforts of Richard Nixon to find what is really going on amidst the welter of narratives.

A later novella, Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears offers an alternate Nixon, one who is devoted to football and sex with the same doggedness with which he pursued political success in this reality. The theme anthology A Night at the Movies includes the story "You Must Remember This", a piece about Casablanca that features an explicit description of what Rick and Ilsa did when the camera wasn't on them. Pinocchio in Venice returns to mythical themes.

Coover is one of the founders of the Electronic Literature Organization. In 1987 he was the winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story.

Awards and honors

  • 1967 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel for The Origin of the Brunists
  • 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story
  • References

    Robert Coover Wikipedia


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