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John William Corrington (October 28, 1932 – November 24, 1988) was an American film and television writer, novelist, poet and lawyer. Biography [ edit ] A Roman Catholic, [2] Corrington attended St. John's High School (now known as Loyola College Prep ), but was expelled after smoking cigarettes on the front steps of the parish church next door.
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- November 24, 1988 (aged 56), Malibu, California, United States
- October 28, 1932, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
- Joyce Elaine Hooper (m. 1960)
He is my late husband’s alter ego (it’s no accident that John Wesley Colvin has the same initials as John William Corrington, and is a redneck from Shreveport, who hates the corruption of New Orleans). Wes is a reporter for the New Orleans Item (a fictional newspaper, let me hasten to say), but is anxious to move on to bigger and better things.
CORRINGTON, John William 1932-1988PERSONAL: Born October 28, 1932, in Memphis, TN; died of a heart attack, November 24, 1988, in Malibu, CA; son of John Wesley (an insurance adjuster) and Viva (Shelley) Corrington; married Joyce Elaine Hooper (a chemistry professor and writer), February 6, 1960; children: Shelley, John, Robert, Thomas.
John William Corrington. Writer: The Omega Man. John William Corrington was born on 28 October 1932 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He was a writer, known for The Omega Man (1971), I Am Legend (2007) and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973).
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- October 28, 1932
- John William Corrington
- November 24, 1988
John William Corrington was born in Ohio in 1932; his family moved to Shreveport, Louisiana when he was a young boy. He may have been born in Ohio, and spent some his boyhood years there, but it was Louisiana and, more particularly, Shreveport that Corrington adopted as his spiritual and literary home. It was growing.
Jul 4, 2013 · John William Corrington(October 1932 - November 1988) was an American movie and television writer, novelist, poet and lawyer. He received a B.A. degree from Centenary College of Louisiana in 1956 and his M.A. from Rice University in 1960, the year he took on his first teaching position in the English Department at Louisiana State University.
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John William Corrington (October 1932 – November 1988) was an American movie and television writer, novelist, poet and lawyer. He received a B.A. degree from Centenary College of Louisiana in 1956 and his M.A. from Rice University in 1960, the year he took on his first teaching position in the English Department at Louisiana State University.
