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(1930-1995) Short story writer, novelist, essayist. Stanley Elkin was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in St. Louis, Missouri.

Full Name

Stanley Lawrence Elkin

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Author's Timeline


1930

BIRTH

Stanley Lawrence Elkin was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 11, 1930.

1964

LITWORK

Boswell: A Modern Comedy
New York, New York: Random House

Novel.

1966

LITWORK

Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers
Random House

Nine short stories.

1967

LITWORK

A Bad Man
Random House
1122167970 / 978-1122167970
Novel.

1973

LITWORK

Searches and Seizures
Random House
0394483294 / 978-0394483290
A collection of three novellas.

1976

LITWORK

The Franchiser
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
1199731404 / 978-1199731401
Novel.

1979

LITWORK

The Living End
E. P. Dutton
0525070206 / 978-0525070207
Novella.

1982

LITWORK

George Mills
Dutton
0525241418 / 978-0525241416
Novel.

1985

LITWORK

The Magic Kingdom
E. P. Dutton & Co.

Novel.

1992

LITWORK

Pieces of Soup
Simon & Schuster
0671734423 / 978-0671734428
Collection of essays.

1995

DEATH

Stanley Elkin died at Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, on May 31, 1995.

1995

LITWORK

Mrs. Ted Bliss
Hyperion
0786861045 / 978-0786861040
Novel.

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