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Bio

(1940-2023) Novelist. Russell Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and died in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Full Name

Russell Earl Banks

Locations

Essex

Author's Timeline


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Mr. Banks attended briefly Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.

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Mr. Banks taught creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York.

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Mr. Banks taught creative writing at Columbia University.

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RESIDENCE

Mr. Banks lived part-time in Keene, New York.

1940

BIRTH

Russell Earl Bank was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on March 28, 1940.

1969

LITWORK

Waiting to Freeze
Lillabulero Press; 1st edition (January 1, 1969)

Collection of poetry.

1975

LITWORK

Family Life
Avon; First Edition (January 1, 1975)
0380002582 / 978-0380002580
Novel.

1975

LITWORK

Searching for Survivors
Fiction Collective; 1st edition (January 1, 1975)
0914590073 / 978-0914590071
Collection of stories.

1978

LITWORK

Hamilton Stark: A novel
Houghton Mifflin; 1st edition (January 1, 1978)
0395264715 / 978-0395264713
Novel.

1980

LITWORK

The Book of Jamaica
Houghton Mifflin; 1st edition (January 1, 1980)
0395290856 / 978-0395290859
Novel.

1985

LITWORK

Continental Drift
Harper & Row; BOMC edition (January 1, 1985)

Novel.

1989

LITWORK

Affliction
Harper & Row; 1st edition (January 1, 1989)
0060161426 / 978-0060161422
Novel.

1991

LITWORK

The Sweet Hereafter
HarperCollins; 1st edition (January 1, 1991)
0060167033 / 978-0060167035
Novel.

1995

LITWORK

Rule Of The Bone
HarperCollins; 1st edition (January 1, 1995)
0060172754 / 978-0060172756
Novel.

1998

LITWORK

Cloudsplitter
Harper; 1st edition (February 17, 1998)

0060168609 / 978-0060168605
Novel.

2023

DEATH

Russell Banks died at his home in Saratoga Springs, New York, on January 8, 2023.

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