Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer and author of novels such as 'Affliction' and 'The Sweet Hereafter,' has died. He was 82.
in the wintry, rural communities of his native Northeast and imagined the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to the radical abolitionist John Brown, has died. He was 82.
Born in Newton, Massachusetts, and raised in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Banks was a self-styled heir to such 19th century writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman, aspiring to high art and a deep grasp of the country's spirit. He was a plumber's son who wrote often about working-class families and those who died trying to break out.
"Cloudsplitter" was his most ambitious novel, a 750-page narrative on John Brown and his improbable quest to rid the country of slavery. "I was a boy; I was frightened by my father's face," Banks' narrator explains."I remember father looking straight into our eyes, burning us with his gaze, as he told us to hear him now. He had determined that he would henceforth put his sins of pride and vanity behind him. And he would go out from here and wage war on slavery. The time has come, he declared, and he wished to join the time in full cry.
His books often told of absent and otherwise failing fathers, and Banks' own father, Earl Banks, was an alcoholic whom the author says beat him as a child and left him with a permanently damaged left eye. He was married twice by his early 20s , endured more than a few bar fights, wrote poetry bad enough that he later wished he had burned it, worked for a time with his father as a plumber back in New Hampshire and resumed his education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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