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Evan Shelby Connell Jr. (August 17, 1924 – January 10, 2013) was a U.S. novelist, short-story writer, essayist and author of epic historical works. He also published under the name Evan S. Connell Jr. In 2009, Connell was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize, for lifetime achievement.
Jan 25, 2018 · The novel is an extended character study, and in understanding the desperately conforming Mrs. Bridge, whose first name is India (“It seemed to her that her parents must have been thinking of...
Jan 14, 2013 · Mon 14 Jan 2013 12.21 EST. In 2009, when he was nominated for the Man Booker international prize, Evan S Connell was little known to the general public. Over a career that spanned more than...
Apr 19, 2024 · Evan S. Connell (born August 17, 1924, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.—died January 10, 2013, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American writer whose works explore philosophical and cultural facets of the American experience.
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Evan S. Connell was born in 1924, in Kansas City, where his father was a prominent physician, his mother a judge's daughter, well-known as a figure in Kansas City society. This genteel, wealthy background is portrayed - and subtly satirized - in Mrs. Bridge (1959) and its companion novel, Mr. Bridge (1969), which together form a brilliantly ...
Jan 12, 2022 · Steve Paul. LAST REVIEWED: 12 January 2022. LAST MODIFIED: 12 January 2022. DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199827251-0012. Introduction. Evan S. Connell (b. 1924–d. 2013) was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up there in a prosperous family with historical ties—reflected in his middle name, Shelby—to Confederate general Jo Shelby.
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Jan 10, 2013 · January 10, 2013. In Memoriam. We are sad to learn that Evan Connell has died. An early contributor to The Paris Review, Connell was and is a quiet hero of contemporary literature. His novels Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge have been cited as a crucial influence by writers as different as Lydia Davis, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith.
