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Russell Banks, award-winning novelist and the Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, and professor of the Humanities Council and creative writing, emeritus, died Jan. 8 from cancer at his home in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Jan 10, 2023 · American novelist and activist Russell Banks died on Sunday of cancer at the age of 82. Banks built an A-list literary career writing about working-class families and immigrants who struggle on...
Jan 8, 2023 · Russell Banks, whose vivid portrayals of working-class Americans grappling with issues of poverty, race and class placed him among the first ranks of contemporary novelists, died on Sunday at his...
Jan 8, 2023 · Prize-winning author Russell Banks has died. He was 82. His editor says Banks, who was being treated for cancer, died Saturday in upstate New York.
Jan 13, 2023 · Russell Banks, the author whose bestselling books include "Affliction," "Continental Drift" and "The Sweet Hereafter," died of cancer Sunday. He was 82 years old.
Jan 8, 2023 · Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as “Affliction” and “The Sweet Hereafter” in the wintry, rural communities of his native Northeast and imagined the...
Jan 8, 2023 · Russell Banks, the award-winning writer of such novels as "Affliction," "The Sweet Hereafter" and "Cloudsplitter," has died of cancer at 82.
Jan 8, 2023 · Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who imagined the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to the radical abolitionist John Brown...
Jan 10, 2023 · Russell Banks, a writer who drew from his own meager upbringing to explore the tragedy and dignity of working-class life in novels and short stories that were among the most celebrated works of...
Russell Banks, American novelist known for his portrayals of the interior lives of characters at odds with economic and social forces. His notable books included Affliction, The Sweet Hereafter, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, and Lost Memory of Skin. Learn more about Russell’s life and work.
