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John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes, Jr. (August 17, 1925 – May 15, 1998) was a postmodern American novelist, known for the intensity of his work, which suspended some traditional constraints of narrative fiction.
- Harvard College
- May 15, 1998 (aged 72), Providence
John Hawkes (born Aug. 17, 1925, Stamford, Conn., U.S.—died May 15, 1998, Providence, R.I.) was an American author whose novels achieve a dreamlike (often nightmarish) intensity through the suspension of traditional narrative constraints. He considered a story’s structure his main concern; in one interview he stated that plot, character ...
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May 18, 1998 · John Hawkes, a veteran and highly praised author of avant-garde and experimental fiction, died on Friday at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. He was 72 and lived in Providence. The cause...
May 15, 1998 · John Hawkes (Author of The Lime Twig) John Hawkes’s Followers (164) Born. in Stamford, Connecticut, The United States. August 17, 1925. Died. May 15, 1998. Website. http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Literary_Arts/... Genre. Literature & Fiction. Influences. Georges Bataille, Sade, Flannery O'Connor, James Joyce, Herman Melvill. ...more. edit data.
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John Hawkes has 70 books on Goodreads with 19620 ratings. John Hawkes’s most popular book is The Lime Twig.
Biography. Photo courtesy of Michael Ondaatje. John Hawkes was an experimental novelist who has been compared to innovative fiction writers including John Barth, William Gass, and William Gaddis. He was quoted in the journal Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature in 1965 as saying “I began to write fiction on the assumption that the ...
20th century American novelist. The mixture of pity and exhilaration in the human condition is recreated with chilling authenticity by Hawkes. His is a search into the pit that stops at no amount of terrifying discovery. Admitting everything, rejecting nothing, Hawkes writes from a viewpoint held by few American authors.