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| | John Hawkes, Experimental Novelist, Is Dead at 72 |
 | | The cause was a stroke that Hawkes had during heart bypass surgery on Monday at the hospital, said his son Jack. |
 | | Hawkes was called a figure "in a post-modern pantheon of experimental novelists who include John Barth, William Gass and William Gaddis" by Mel Gussow in The New York Times in 1996. |
 | | Besides his son Jack, of Santa Cruz, Calif., Hawkes is survived by his wife, the former Sophie Tazewell, whom he married in 1947; two other sons, Calvert, of Sarasota, Fla., and Richard, of Providence; a daughter, Sophie Hawkes of Hudson, N.Y., and a granddaughter. |
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