Robert coover best books
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Coover, Robert 1932–
(Robert Lowell Coover)
PERSONAL: Born February 4, 1932, in Charles City, IA; son of Grant Marion and Maxine (Sweet) Coover; married Maria del Pilar Sans-Mallafré, June 3, 1959; children: Diana Nin, Sara Chapin, Roderick Luis. Education: Attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1949–51; Indiana University at Bloom ington, B.A., 1953; University of Chicago, M.A., 1965.
ADDRESSES: Home—Providence, RI. Agent—Georges Borchardt, Inc., 136 East 57th St., New York, NY 10022.
CAREER: Writer of fiction, plays, essays, and poetry. Instructor, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1966–67, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1967–69, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1972–73, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1972, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, 1976, and Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1981; Brown University, Providence, RI, began as writer-in-residence, then distinguished professor, beginning 1981. Producer and director of film On a Confrontation in Iowa City, 1969. Organized conference on literature, "Unspeakable Practices: A T
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Biography
Pomo has probably gone the way of those others -isms. You know – minimalism, structuralism, deconstructionism, communism, all of those. It has left a few bodies behind and maybe a few worthwhile writers. Coover is one of the worthwhile ones and he is still turning out good, pomo books, while the others are dead or turning out work of dubious quality. So let’s hear it for post-modernism and Robert Coover. Oh, and the books are listed to the right and they are pretty well all worth reading, while The Public Burning may be one of the best US late 20th century and pomo novels ever.
Robert Coover was born in Iowa City in 1932. His father was a newspaper editor but had to move around a lot. After studying two years at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, he read Slavic studies at Indiana University and then joined the navy. After the navy, he stayed abroad, marrying a Spanish woman. This led to rumours that he had been working for the CIA. He was apparently also friends with the very elusive Thomas Pynchon. On returning to the USA, he took an M.A. at the U
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Robert Coover
American novelist (1932–2024)
This article is about the American novelist. For other people named Coover, see Coover.
Robert Lowell Coover (February 4, 1932 – October 5, 2024) was an American novelist, short story writer, and T. B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University.[1] He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. He became a proponent of electronic literature and was a founder of the Electronic Literature Organization.
Background
Coover was born in Charles City, Iowa.[2] He attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale, received his B.A. in Slavic Studies from Indiana University Bloomington in 1953,[3] then served in the United States Navy from 1953 to 1957, where he became a lieutenant.[4] He received an M.A. in General Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago in 1965. In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.[5] Coover served as a teache
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