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Thomas Louis Berger (July 20, 1924 – July 13, 2014) was an American novelist. Probably best known for his picaresque novel Little Big Man and the subsequent film by Arthur Penn, Berger explored and manipulated many genres of fiction throughout his career, including the crime novel, the hard-boiled detective story, science fiction, the utopian ...
- Novelist
- Thomas Louis Berger, July 20, 1924, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
- 1958–2014
- Literary fiction
Apr 19, 2024 · Notable Works: “Crazy in Berlin”. “Little Big Man”. Thomas Berger (born July 20, 1924, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died July 13, 2014, Nyack, New York) was an American novelist whose darkly comic fiction probes and satirized the American experience. Berger graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1948.
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Oct 2, 2014 · When the Tall Tale Grew Bigger. 50 years ago, Thomas Berger's novel Little Big Man was unfairly dismissed as lowbrow. But as its stature grew, it boosted critical acceptance for other...
- Allen Barra
Jul 30, 2014 · Books & Fiction. Short stories and poems, plus author interviews, profiles, and tales from the world of literature. Thomas Berger, who died last week at the age of eighty-nine, wrote out of an...
- Henry Giardina
Jul 21, 2014 · Thomas Berger, the reclusive and bitingly satirical novelist who explored the myths of the American West in “Little Big Man” and the mores of 20th-century middle-class society in a shelf of ...
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Jul 22, 2014 · NEW YORK (AP) — Thomas Berger, the witty and eclectic novelist who reimagined the American West in the historical yarn “Little Big Man” and mastered genres ranging from detective stories to domestic farce, has died at age 89.
Jul 31, 2014 · Thu 31 Jul 2014 10.41 EDT. With the deserved success of his third novel, Little Big Man (1964), Thomas Berger, who has died aged 89, was propelled to the forefront of American novelists....
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