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David Markson. David Merrill Markson (December 20, 1927 – c. June 4, 2010) [1] was an American novelist. He was the author of several postmodern novels, including Springer's Progress, Wittgenstein's Mistress, and Reader's Block. His final book, The Last Novel, published in 2007, was called "a real tour de force" by The New York Times.
Jun 4, 2010 · David Markson. David Markson was an American novelist, born David Merrill Markson in Albany, New York. He is the author of several postmodern novels, including This is Not a Novel, Springer's Progress, and Wittgenstein's Mistress. His most recent work, The Last Novel, was published in 2007 and received a positive review in the New York Times ...
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Jun 8, 2010 · David Merrill Markson was born in Albany on Dec. 20, 1927. His father, Sam, was a newspaperman; his mother, Florence, a teacher. He graduated from Union College in Schenectady, ...
Aug 24, 2015 · Kate, the narrator of David Markson’s 1988 novel Wittgenstein’s Mistress, is a world traveller. She has sailed the Aegean and the Bering Strait, and driven across Russia and western Europe. A ...
Jun 14, 2010 · David Markson, who has died aged 82, was one of the most original of US novelists. Kurt Vonnegut and Zadie Smith have written with saucer-eyed admiration of his fiction, while his Wittgenstein's ...
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Jul 25, 2023 · To celebrate the recent release of Wittgenstein’s Mistress as part of the Dalkey Archive Essentials series, it seems like the perfect time to revisit this re-reading of David Markson’s classic novel about language, memory, grief, and possibly the end of the world. First published in 1988 —after fifty-four rejections, famously—and ...
Jun 7, 2010 · David Markson, a revered postmodern author who rummaged relentlessly and humorously through art, history and reality itself in such novels as "Wittgenstein's Mistress," and wrote crime fiction ...
