Connell was shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize in 2009. Connell, already revered as a writer’s writer, is an indispensable maker of American literature. Elegantly and without jargon, Paul persuades us that Evan S. The Connoisseur trails the evolution of Muhlbach. Thus, too, Connell’s ‘quaint mania,’ as he called his devotion to writing, inspires every page of Steve Paul’s thorough, witty biography.
It was adapted as a television film/miniseries in 1991 and went on to win four Emmy Awards.Įvan S. Connell sends us through the complete experience of a man initially intrigued and then enslaved by art: a curious interest, a rapt fixation, and the becoming of a connoisseur. Bridge, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.Ĭonnell’s 1960 novel, The Patriot, is the story of Melvin Isaacs, aged 17, and his experiences in naval aviation school during the Second World War. Connell’s 1984 biography of George Armstrong Custer, Son of the Morning Star, was a critically acclaimed bestseller. Bridge (1969) are bittersweet, gently satirical portraits of a conventional, unimaginative upper middle-class couple living in Kansas City from the 1920s to the 1940s. The pair of novels was adapted as the 1990 Merchant-Ivory motion picture, Mr. Taken together, Evan Connell's fourteen books show a consistent quality, a quiet excellence few authors of his generation can match. His writing covered a variety of genres, although he published most frequently in fiction. In 2010, he was awarded a Los Angeles Times Book Prize: the Robert Kirsch Award, for ‘a living author with a substantial connection to the American West, whose contribution to American letters deserves special recognition’.Ĭonnell’s novels Mrs. Several are, in fact, great: the Bridge novels, the poems, and the Custer epic two more novels, Diary of a Rapist and The Connoisseur, fall just below these.
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