Evan S. Connell (1924-2013) was named a finalist for the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for achievement in fiction. He received numerous prizes and awards for his writing and was the author of more than twenty books of fiction, poetry, essays, and history, including the biography of General Armstrong Custer, Son of the Morning Star.
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The 1960s: news of riots, war, unheard-of behavior, and rampant crime crowds the papers and the airwaves. Spurned by his wife at home and by superiors at work, Earl Summerfield hunkers down in his cramped San Francisco apartment and keeps a diary that is ... SEE MORE