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	Artists-in-Residence: Russell Banks
		Russell Banks is the author of a dozen novels and short story collections, including Cloudsplitter, The Book of Jamaica, Trailerpark, Continental Drift, and most recently, The Darling.
		Included among the numerous honors and awards Banks has received are the Ingram Merrill Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Laure Batailion Prize for the best translation of a work of fiction for the French language edition of The Darling.
		Banks has been named New York State Author (2004-2006), and he is the President of the International Parliament of Writers and the founding President of the North American Network of Cities of Asylum.
	www.air.umd.edu /russell_banks.html (244 words)

	Russell Banks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940) is an American writer of fiction and poetry.
		Banks has also written short stories, some of which appear in the collection The Angel on the Roof, as well as poetry.
		Banks has signed the call of the anti-fascist group The World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russell_Banks (315 words)

	Russell Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Russell Banks (born March 28 1940) is an American author.
		Russell Banks' CONTINENTAL DRIFT, published in 1985, is not an easy read and not a pretty one at that; however, it is a powerful, disturbing, thought-provoking look at the death of 'The American Dream' as experienced by two entirely different protagonists...
		Russell Banks writes beautiful, improbable and totally realistic characters that suck you in and who you will carry them around with you for a long time afterward....
	www.freeglossary.com /Russell_Banks (424 words)

	CLOUDSPLITTER By Russell Banks
		Banks tells the story in the voice of Brown's son, Owen, who, at the request of a historian, is writing a first-person account of Bloody Kansas and Harper's Ferry many years after the fact.
		Banks is somewhat obscure on how this betrayal took place, but the simple fact of his survival is enough to account for the haunted tone of Owen's narration.
		Banks has said he was drawn to John Brown because he is a hero -- perhaps the only white hero -- to fls and a monster to whites (nice cause, bloody tactics).
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/ae/books/9798/03/15/cloudsplitter.html (1112 words)

	Russell Banks pulls his punches
		Russell Banks likes to put the hook in the reader's mouth before he even knows what is happening.
		Banks spends about three pages fussing with the frame of the thing (who tells it and why), then crafts a heartbreaking 40-page sequence showing a divorced, middle-age cop, Wade Whitehouse, in a small town in New Hampshire flubbing his plans for giving his alienated little daughter a happy Halloween.
		Banks is a master of the middle of things.
	www.suntimes.com /output/books/sho-sunday-banks17.html (910 words)

	Russell Banks - "Spirit of Place" First Session - 2002 Key West Literary Seminar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		RUSSELL BANKS was born in eastern Massachusetts and raised in New Hampshire "where the winters were endless, the soil barren, and the houses falling down." The eldest of four children, he grew up in a working-class, hardscrabble world that has played a major role in shaping his writing.
		Banks, the first in his family to go to college, was admitted to Colgate University in 1958 on full academic scholarship.
		Banks continued to teach (at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and most recently in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University) while rapidly gaining recognition and acclaim for his novels and short stories.
	www.keywestliteraryseminar.org /spirit/p_russellbanks.htm (327 words)

	Books and Writing - 08/05/2005: Russell Banks
		Russell Banks has been writing about class and race for some time, but this time we’re looking at middle-class left puritan politics and at his character, Hannah Musgrave, as she considers her life as an ex-member of the Weather Underground.
		Russell Banks: Yes, not directly modelled on him but it wasn’t hard to jump from her father to Dr Spock as a model, or as a type, I guess.
		Russell Banks: What I think I meant by thatand I really was trying to get at the heart of what it must be like to be a narcissist; that is, someone who has no centre, no self, but whose only way to define herself or himself is through other people’s gaze.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/bwriting/stories/s1360556.htm (2562 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Russell Banks
		Russell Banks was raised in New Hampshire and Eastern Massachusetts.
		Banks (who was the first in his family to go to college) attended Colgate University, and later graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
		Russell Banks is married to the poet Chase Twichell, and is the father of four grown daughters.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-banks-russell.asp (390 words)

	Russell Banks
		Russell Banks was raised in New Hampshire and eastern Massachusetts.
		Banks (who was the first in his family to go to college) attended Colgate University for less than a semester, and later graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
		Russell Banks is married to the poet Chase Twichell, and is the father of four grown daughters.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /b/russell-banks (430 words)

	identity theory \| interviews \| russell banks
		Banks has won numerous awards and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and currently the New York State Author.
		Banks: This generation, this baby-boomer generation that came to maturity or immaturity, depending on your point of view, in the sixties and early seventies is now the generation in their late fifties and early sixties.
		Banks: Most vocabularies that subscribe to it or explored [it], starting really in the late forties but running up until the later seventies, whether it was with existentialism or Freudianism or Marxism—there are all those different ideologies, systems, or philosophies that had a similar goal in some way: authenticity.
	www.identitytheory.com /interviews/birnbaum156.php (7199 words)

	Novelist Russell Banks "Cloudsplitter" "The Sweet Hereafter"
		Russell Banks: For example, the question of Owen Brown's sexuality, which is somewhat ambiguous, there is no historical evidence one way or the other in regard to that, but it seemed to me to be psychologically essential to the story and his relation to his father.
		Russell Banks: Graduate writing programs are essentially a rationalized form of a writer's apprenticeship and so far in a controlled environment, a young writer is given the essential elements required by an apprenticeship - a peer group, a mentor, and a few years outside the economy.
		Russell Banks: I think the key for me is not to learn how to be a character or embody a character, but rather to learn how to listen a character or to observe a character.
	www.time.com /time/community/transcripts/chattr030498.html (3221 words)

	The American Experience \| John Brown's Holy War \| Enhanced Transcript
		Russell Banks: There was, driving him, a kind of rage, a deep psychological anger that allowed him to ally himself, as he did -- so thoroughly and so unusually, for a white man -- with the anger and resentment and sense of loss that African Americans had.
		Russell Banks: On the one hand, yes, he was this authoritative, patriarchal figure in all his relations.
		Russell Banks: He believed, to the bottom of his bones that his life on earth was meant to be lived as a test, a moral test.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/brown/filmmore/transcript/transcript1.html (7141 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| Russell Banks and Michael Ondaatje
		Literary lion: Russell Banks writes of violence with a sense of injustice that is still awake and pain that is still vivid.
		In his novel, Banks spoke of the unspoken terror of North American families as they try to protect themselves against chance: the random act of violence, the bad influence, the loose piece of machinery that snaps and kills a child.
		Banks, who experienced plenty of violence growing up, writes of it with the sense of injustice that is still awake and pain that's still vivid.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/02.22.01/banks-ondaatje-0108.html (1155 words)

	SI.com - Writers - Banks: Vikings' Russell picks off obstacles, opponents - Thursday October 16, 2003 5:20PM
		Many credit Russell's athleticism for his interception streak, but truth be known, he says he's not even the best athlete in his own Twin Cities home.
		Russell wasn't officially named the Vikings starter though until the week of Minnesota's opener at Green Bay, even while club officials tried furiously to put together an entry into the Lawyer Milloy sweepstakes, which were won by Buffalo.
		Russell, 25, got his chance in the league because the Vikings had once before benefited from signing an undrafted, hard-hitting converted safety out of San Diego State.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2003/writers/don_banks/10/16/vikings.russell (1848 words)

	MIT World » : Russell Banks: A Reading
		Banks comments with typical understatement, “Novelists are people who have a great affection for delayed rewards.” The plot of the novel, as gleaned from this small sample, surprisingly connects a woman running an organic farm in New England to Liberia’s bloody and endless civil war.
		Russell Banks was raised in a working-class environment, which has played a major role in his writing.
		Banks, who was the first in his family to go to college, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
	mitworld.mit.edu /video/172 (385 words)

	Metro Pulse/Pulp/Russell Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Another denizen of the trailer park, Merle Ring, revels in the solitude found fishing from a tiny enclosure over a frozen lake in "The Fisherman." Ring is another variation of the usual Banks male: self-centered, oblivious, and self-righteous in his refusal to follow the path of the mainstream.
		In "Indisposed," Banks totally shifts gears with a female protagonist, an ambiguous setting (though surely not modern) and an omniscient perspective, telling the story of an abused woman who turns the tables on her oppressive husband.
		Banks speaks volumes in the form of brief parables that illustrate the truths of ordinary lives while avoiding the pitfalls of grandiosity—a lesson that might have been lost in Banks' most recent, sprawling historical novel, Cloudsplitter.
	www.metropulse.com /dir_zine/dir_2001/1125/t_pulp.html (693 words)

	Russell Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Banks (the first in his family to go to college) attended Colgate University "for less than a semester," and later graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
		Russell Banks (The Sweet Hereafter, Affliction) started out as a poet, and nowhere is this more evident than in his 37 years' worth of exquisite short stories, collected here in one hefty volume for the first time.
		HarperCollins.com: Russell Banks - biography and excerpts from The Angel on the Roof, Cloudsplitter, Affliction, Rule of the Bone, and Continental Drift.
	bookbeat.searchbeat.com /authors/banks.htm (696 words)

	A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library presents Russell Banks
		Banks attended Colgate University, and later graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
		Banks' visit to Southwestern, the library sponsored a series of informal discussions centering on two of Mr.
		Banks' appearance is partially funded by the Susan Vaughan Foundation, Inc. of Houston.
	www.southwestern.edu /library/writers-voice/banks.html (694 words)

	Powell's Books - The Darling by Russell Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Russell Banks has exhibited an astonishingly imaginative range throughout his distinguished career as a novelist, and his uniquely realistic American voice, on display in such modern classics as Rule of the Bone and Continental Drift, continues to shine in this latest effort.
		"Six years after the publication of his much-lauded novel Cloudsplitter, Banks returns with a portrayal of personal and political turmoil in West Africa and the U.S. The darling of the title is narrator Hannah Musgrave, a privileged child of the turbulent 1960s and '70s, who now, at 59, reflects on her life.
		"Banks brings the full weight of his storytelling genius and psychological perceptiveness to a novel as compulsively readable as it is eviscerating in its dramatization of cultural divides, political mayhem, psychotic violence, and profound alienation."
	www.powellsbooks.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=28228&cgi=biblio&show=Hardcover:New:0060197358:25.95 (835 words)

	BookPage Interview October 2004: Russell Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is in the mid-1970s, and Hannah, the daughter of a prominent, liberally active American doctor and writer, is hiding out in West Africa under an assumed name, fleeing authorities she believes are pursuing her for her radical activities in the Weather Underground.
		Banks, who has written such highly regarded works of fiction as Continental Drift, The Sweet Hereafter, Rule of the Bone and, most recently, Cloudsplitter—his dazzling fictional portrait of abolitionist John Brown and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998—says he sees himself not so much as speaking through his characters as listening to them.
		Which is not to say that Banks' own opinions have nothing to do with his creation of Hannah Musgrave and the cast of characters who populate her story.
	www.bookpage.com /0410bp/russell_banks.html (875 words)

	Russell Banks Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The literary papers of American writer Russell Banks span a forty-year career from the early 1960s to 2001.
		Banks kept his correspondence primarily in date order, although frequent correspondents were identified separately and housed apart from the chronological files, although there is some cross-over between the two.
		Numerous articles by and about Banks, excerpts from novels, interviews, reviews, and stories published in literary and popular magazines are found in Series IV Published Material.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/banks.html (2876 words)

	CNN - Russell Banks - Mar. 9, 1998
		The most personal reason, I suppose, is that he was an important, an emblematic figure for me in the '60s when I was politically active myself in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement.
		One of the things that most intrigued me about John Brown is that he's a figure who sort of stands astride the color line in American society in the 1850s and as well as the 1990s.
		BANKS: That one came from actually a newspaper story looking into the aftermath of a school bus accident in South Texas in a Mexican-American community back in the late '80s.
	www.cnn.com /books/dialogue/9803/russell.banks (921 words)

	Off the Page: Russell Banks (washingtonpost.com)
		Russell Banks: Yes and no. I was there as a novelist, not as a journalist or historian, so what I was interested in was the sound, smell and look of the place, its physical presence.
		Russell Banks: I think the film is faithful to the tone and atmosphere of the novel, and also, to its moral perspective and themes.
		Russell Banks: It seemed to me natural and therefore necessary to include historical figures in both Cloudsplitter and The Darling, because the characters I was writing about were themselves involved with historical figures, and if not personally involved, were very aware of their existence.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A52016-2004Dec9.html (3322 words)

	village voice > books > Russell Banks's The Darling by Joy Press
		Russell Banks is a major American novelist, a maestro of loss.
		The boys remain barely sketched stick figures, as does her husband—her family is the dark, hard center of the novel, a clot that Banks never dissolves or resolves.
		This makes some sense if you look at the narrative from Hannah's perspective: She is trapped as a spectator in her own life, still in the process of unraveling her own denial.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0442/press.php (764 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Russell Banks
		Russell Banks gave me the life of a small, rural village; William Trevor gave me access to this Anglo-Irish tradition I didn't know; and Rupert Holmes gave me access to American popular entertainers -- since he was one himself.
		The Darling By Russell Banks HarperCollins, 392 pp.
		Fans of Russell Banks will be rewarded with his incisive eye for character, his ability to deliver a relentless and engaging narrative--always in the service of his...
	news.surfwax.com /authors/files/Russell_Banks_Book.html (2353 words)

	Amazon.com: Affliction: Books: Russell Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Banks' thesis in this novel is, that through tens of thousands of years of history, men have inherited a culture of brutality from their fathers and from other male role models.
		Banks' use of language is taut and spare, and his description of the terror of domestic violence is unparalleled.
		Over the course of the novel, this is apparently a common theme for Banks, he realizes how desolate and desperate his life has become and he begins to lash out at his abusive father, shrewish ex-wife, his tyrannical boss and the towns uppity part time residents, the idle rich in their ski chalets.
	www.amazon.com /Affliction-Russell-Banks/dp/0060920076 (1805 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| Rule Of The Bone by Russell Banks
		Russell Banks has created a story that is both shattering and reassuring, and narrator, Bone, who will stay with me for the rest of my life."
		Russell Banks’ books include Searching for Survivors, Family Life, Hamilton Stark, The New World, Book of Jamaica, Trailerpark, The Relation of My Imprisonment, Continental Drift, Success Stories, Affliction, The Sweet Hereafter, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, and The Angel On The Roof, a collection of short stories.
		Banks was raised in New Hampshire and eastern Massachusetts and is the eldest of four children.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0394281659 (676 words)

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