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Profile of John Hawkes
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Stamford, Connecticut, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
- For the actor, see John Hawkes
John Hawkes (born John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes, Jr., 17 August 1925-15 May 1998) was an avant garde American novelist, known for the intensity of his work, which suspended the traditional constraints of the narrative. To him, structure was the key to the successful novel, even at the expense of character, plot, and theme.
Educated at Harvard, Hawkes taught at Brown University for thirty years. Though he published his first novel, The Cannibal, in 1949, it was The Lime Twig (1961) that first won him acclaim.
Hawkes died in Providence Rhode Island.
Selected works
- The Cannibal (1949)
- The Beetle Leg (1951)
- The Goose on the Grave (1954)
- The Owl (1954)
- The Lime Twig (1961)
- Second Skin (1964)
- The Innocent Party (1966) - plays
- Lundar Landscapes (1969) - short stories
- The Blood Oranges (1971)
- Death, Sleep, and the Traveler (1974)
- Travesty (1976)
- The Passion Artist (1979)
- Virginie (1981)
- Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade (1985)
- Whistlejacket (1988)
- Sweet William (1993)
- The Frog (1996)
- An Irish Eye (1997)
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