Evan S. Connell

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Evan S. Connell

American author

Also known as: Evan Shelby Connell, Jr.

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In full:: Evan Shelby Connell, Jr.

Born:: August 17, 1924, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.

Died:: January 10, 2013, Santa Fe, New Mexico (aged 88)

Notable Works:: “Mr. Bridge”; “Mrs. Bridge”; “Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn”; “The Anatomy Lesson and Other Stories”

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Evan S. Connell (born August 17, 1924, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.—died January 10, 2013, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American writer whose works explore philosophical and cultural facets of the American experience. Connell attended Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and the University of Kansas (A.B., 1947) and did graduate work at Stanford (California), Columbia (New York City), and San Francisco State universities. While working a series of mundane jobs, Connell devoted himself to writing. The stories in his first published work, the critically acclaimed The Anatomy Lesson, and Other Stories (1957), are set in various regions of the United ...(100 of 313 words)

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