The award-winning novelist rose to prominence with stories of hardscrabble New England communities dealing with the intractable issues of poverty and racial strife.
Award-winning novelist Russell Banks, who rose to prominence with stories of hardscrabble New England communities dealing with the intractable issues of poverty and racial strife, died Sunday at his home in upstate New York. He was 82. Banks’ agenthe died of cancer, which he had been receiving treatment for.
Banks was a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist in the fiction category, for his titles “Continental Drift” and “Cloudsplitter” . He grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of a plumber who explored working-class issues in nearly all of his 21 books. Longtime friend and fellow Princeton professor Joyce Carol Oates
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