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	Russell Hoban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Russell Conwell Hoban (born February 4, 1925) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magic realism, poetry, and children's books.
		Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hoban enlisted in the Army at age 18 and served in the Philippines and Italy as a radio operator during World War II.
		Hoban is often described as a fantasy writer; only two of his novels, Turtle Diary and The Bat Tattoo, are entirely devoid of supernatural elements.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russell_Hoban (380 words)

	Russell Hoban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Russell Conwell Hoban (born February 4 th, 1925) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, poetry, children's books, and unclassifiable works which contain fantasy elements within a modern urban setting.
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		Russell Hoban Fan page with descriptions of and quotes from several novels.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Russell_Hoban.html (364 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| A writer's life: Russell Hoban
		Russell Hoban lives in a neat row of terraced houses in south-west London, tucked away from the main drag and overlooking a pretty park.
		Although Hoban doesn't regard himself as a creator of ghost stories, it was the work of writers such as MR James, Arthur Machen and Margaret Oliphant that first attracted him to London from America in the late 1960s, after the publication of his extraordinary book The Mouse and His Child.
		There won't be much chance for Hoban to be alone a couple of weeks from now, when a convention of fans, ominously named the Kraken, are planning to descend on London to celebrate his 80th birthday next month with a Russell Hoban Some-Poasyum (an echo of the broken-down pidgin of Riddley Walker).
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/01/30/boclarke.xml (684 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Features - Lord of the Kraken
		RUSSELL HOBAN, THE AMERICAN author of Riddley Walker, The Mouse and His Child, The Medusa Frequency and a clutch of other highly-acclaimed experimental novels, ushers me into his London home.
		Hoban regards all of this attention as flattering since, he admits, "I don’t get a lot of commercial encouragement." His best-selling work to date is a series of witty children’s books published in the 1960s about a precocious badger, Frances, who learns life’s lessons.
		Hoban had a similar experience in Israel where he had gone on holiday with his daughter Esme and her husband Moti.
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=161022005 (1528 words)

	Riddley Walker review
		Hoban touches on all of these, but isn't interested in satisfying our appetite for any of them; he doesn't even leave the semi-comfort of an ironic lament for human nature, because he suggests that we don't and won't understand human nature at all.
		Hoban calls it "a sampling to help the reader" but the choices seem very arbitrary ("pirntowt" is here, but not the trickier and funnier "vack your wayt"?).
		Punch by Hoban, and "The Legend of St. Eustace." Unfortunately, the small fl-and-white reproduction of this painting is very hard to decipher -- although this is not inappropriate, since the characters in the novel never get to see it either.
	www.graphesthesia.com /eb/prose/riddley.html (1982 words)

	Russell Hoban: What's His Deal?
		Hoban to other writers is ultimately to miss the mark: the truth of the matter is that Russell Hoban is one of the most original writers of the twentieth century, in a century characterized by innovation.
		Hoban's two most recent novels, to much acclaim; in the U.S., IU Press has published its Russell Hoban Omnibus, making a wide selection of his writing available again; and a thriving online community of passionate Hoban fans called The Kraken has sprung up, to discuss and promote the appreciation of his work.
		What makes Russell Hoban's writing so memorable, and creates passionate devotees of those lucky enough to discover his work, is his patented blend of droll, arch humor mixed with a surreal romanticism that elevates the reader into a realm of pure poetry.
	www.ocelotfactory.com /hoban/intro.html (605 words)

	USM de Grummond Collection - RUSSELL AND LILLIAN HOBAN PAPERS
		Russell Conwell Hoban was born February 4, 1925 in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.
		Lillian Aberman Hoban was born May 18, 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she spent her childhood.
		Russell shifted his career emphasis from illustrator to writer, while Lillian gradually switched from dancer back to illustrator.
	www.lib.usm.edu /%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/hobanrus.htm (1073 words)

	Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hoban masterfully characterizes Riddley as a sophisticated thinker struggling to gain conceptual understanding that exceeds the boundaries of his rudimentary post civilization mythology.
		Hoban's consideration of that quality of human nature that drives us to create even knowing within the act of creation that that we are sowing the seeds of our own destruction is exquisite.
		Hoban gives no quarter to the reader, no glossary, no slips into the vernacular for sidebar explanations.
	www.strangewords.com /archive/riddley.html (485 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Night shades
		Out of these disparate and disorienting facts, Russell Hoban has constructed a compelling meditation on the nature of loss and longing that, even after the final piece of the jigsaw slots into place, leaves us with enough unresolved mysteries to fill another book.
		Hoban's last novel, Angelica's Grotto, ended with its hero crushed under the wheels of a number 14 bus.
		Hoban expands this to encompass the intricacies of mental imagery and the complexity of desire, with its twin poles of attraction and repulsion.
	www.booksunlimited.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,421382,00.html (676 words)

	Review of Russell Hoban's "The Bat Tattoo"
		Hoban has always sought the something that gets squeezed out of existence daily in the closing gap between everything that is real and everything that isn’t quite.
		Hoban’s fiction is such a magpie’s nest of shiny borrowed objects that narrative must disentangle itself from one kind of stuff by the act of weaving itself into another.
		Hoban’s more recent works – Angelica’s Grotto, Amaryllis Night and Day and now The Bat Tattoo – don’t have the linguistic intensity of Riddley Walker, the tight metaphysical focus of Pilgermann (described by one critic as “a private conversation with the universe”), the manic digitised drive of The Medusa Frequency.
	www.thoughtcat.com /batreview.htm (2153 words)

	re:mote voices
		February 2005, Russell Hoban's new novel Come Dance With Me has just been released in hardback, with the paperback of Her Name Was Lola being released at the end of 2004.
		The Hobanic worlds are usually some form of London, invariably featuring journey's on London's underground or bus system, visits to it's museums and theatres which inform the texture of the narrative, or conversations in London's cafes, bars and restaurants.
		Such that Hoban's characters are stalked by mythical lions, have death whispering through their letter box, or in this case demons of forgetfulness following them down the street.
	remotevoices.blogspot.com /2005/02/title-her-name-was-lola-author-russell.html (884 words)

	Michael Dirda (washingtonpost.com)
		Whatever its intended age group, Hoban's best work repeatedly explores the same themes: the search for love, the nature of creativity, the power of ancient symbols (Punch and Judy, the Orpheus legend, Indian deities) and the shimmering, shifting, unreliable nature of reality.
		Russell Hoban depicts a novelist named Max Lesser, who is much like himself (albeit 30 years younger).
		Hoban certainly does that here, with his usual self-deprecating wit, a bit of melodrama and a real sense of both life's complexity and how deeply we sometimes yearn to redeem the past.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A26006-2004Jul29.html (1041 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| The shaman and his exobrain
		Entering Russell Hoban's writing room in his south London home is a little like wandering into your favourite emporium of second-hand books and records.
		As with Hoban's favourite artist, Daumier, this means teasing the border between the seen and the unseen, between reality and dream, so that reading a Hoban novel is like watching a film being played on an opening and closing door: you're never quite sure whether you are looking in or out.
		This month sees the paperback publication of Hoban's most recent novel, Amaryllis Night and Day (2001), along with two reissued classics: Pilgermann (1983) studies Jewishness at the time of the First Crusade, while Kleinzeit (1974) is a dark and funny hospital-based parable about the exchange between inspiration and despair.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,635516,00.html (983 words)

	Juvenile Books Author of the Month
		Russell Conwell Hoban was born on February 4, 1925 in Lansdale, Pennsylvania to Abram T. and Jeanette (Dimmerman) Hoban, two Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine.
		Hoban's art ability was put to use in art shows, animation studios, and on several magazines including Time, Life, Fortune, The Saturday Evening Post, and True.
		Lillian Hoban returned to the United States to live in Wilton Connecticut with the Hoban children after the couple's divorce in 1975.
	www.yourlibrary.ws /childrens_webpage/e-author22001.html (1301 words)

	Directory - Arts: Literature: Authors: H: Hoban, Russell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Russell Hoban · cached · Fan page with descriptions of and quotes from several novels.
		Bloomsbury Author Information: Russell Hoban · cached · Publisher's page includes descriptions and excerpts of novels, including first two chapters and afterword from Riddley Walker.
		USM de Grummond Collection: Russell and Lillian Hoban Papers · cached · Biographical sketch and summary of university's library holdings (notes and manuscripts).
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=56373 (246 words)

	Hoban, Russell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hoban attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art and served in the U.S. Army (1943-45) before beginning his career as an advertising artist and copywriter.
		Among Hoban's novels for adults are The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz (1973), Kleinzeit (1974), and Turtle Diary (1975; filmed 1985).
		Riddley Walker (1980), probably Hoban's best-known novel, is set in the future in an England devastated by nuclear war.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/H/hobanrussell/1.html (257 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Profile: Russell Hoban
		Hoban's current status as a novelist, hovering somewhere between a cult and a mainstream writer, is in contrast to his consistently elevated reputation as a writer for children.
		Although his parents were agnostic, Hoban stayed home from school on Jewish holidays and says his father was part of the cultural and political Jewish scene in the city; he was also a director of a drama guild where Hoban would occasionally have small parts in Yiddish classics and socially conscious plays about the depression.
		Russell has a tremendous facility for exploring the mind of a child." Hoban's daughter Phoebe wrote last year that "Frances's little songs to this day resonate with my father's wit, love of wordplay and pleasure in the joys of the quotidian".
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,845568,00.html (2978 words)

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		Hoban expresses his views on love, learning, experience, and literature.
		"Russell Hoban's The Mouse and His Child and the Search to Be Self-Winding." Proceedings of the Children's Literature Association 5 (1978):64-69.
		Traces Hoban's career in children's literature from his beginnings as an illustrator, through the Frances books, to Mouse and His Child.
	www.unm.edu /~lhendr/author/author4.13.html (486 words)

	The Impossible Conference, 23-24 April 1998
		This seems to be akin to how the librettist Russell Hoban feels about the characters who populate his opera.
		Russell Hoban also uses the Punch and Judy tradition in his novel Riddley Walker, in which real human severed heads are placed on poles as oracles.
		What Kong is the idea of, says Hoban, is precisely that within us which can never have what it wants, “The wild and wordless, lost and lonely child of all the world”.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/7969/kong.html (3480 words)

	A Russell Hoban Omnibus: Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Russell Hoban is a major author who is little known in North America.
		Hoban has also excelled as a writer of short stories, essays, and poetry.
		RUSSELL HOBAN was born in Pennsylvania in 1925.
	www.indiana.edu /~iupress/books/0-253-33586-8pr.html (313 words)

	Daily Telegraph (London, England): Make-believe perfectionist; Russell Hoban's books combine meticulous craftsmanship ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Daily Telegraph (London, England): Make-believe perfectionist; Russell Hoban's books combine meticulous craftsmanship with soaring fantasy.
		Make-believe perfectionist; Russell Hoban's books combine meticulous craftsmanship with soaring fantasy.
		He also chooses his words carefully because he is that sort of man: the writer as workaholic, revising and revising until he has got it right; the literary perfectionist for whom language is a precise instrument used in a sacred cause.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:69383150&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (203 words)

	Russell Hoban: News
		Hoban's most recent novel, Her Name Was Lola (November '03), see the Her Name Was Lola page.
		Hoban's 80th birthday, the worldwide community of Russell Hoban fans known as The Kraken are proud to announce the first ever International Russell Hoban Convention, to be held in London over the weekend of February 11-13, 2005.
		Hoban's latest novel, The Bat Tattoo, was published in the UK by Bloomsbury Publishing on October 7.
	www.ocelotfactory.com /hoban/news.html (4087 words)

	Web Sites Guide ODP > Arts> Literature> Authors> H> Hoban, Russell
		Bloomsbury Author Information: Russell Hoban - Publisher's page includes descriptions and excerpts of novels, including first two chapters and afterword from Riddley Walker.
		Russell Hoban - Fan page with descriptions of and quotes from several novels.
		USM de Grummond Collection: Russell and Lillian Hoban Papers - Biographical sketch and summary of university's library holdings (notes and manuscripts).
	www.websitesguide.info /Arts/Literature/Authors/H/Hoban,_Russell (280 words)

	Riddley Walker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hoban indulges in a lot of this sort of packing of multiple meanings into a single word.
		Much of the underlying tension of the story is between those who are happy with the largely nontechnological society they live in and those who want to progress back to a near-legendary time when men flew through the air.
		Hoban has taken a set of unlikely cultural icons (the Punch and Judy show, a fifteenth-century painting of the legend of St. Eustace, academic research) and woven their echoes together into an internally-consistent postwar universe.
	www.larkfarm.com /books/riddley_walker.htm (891 words)

	Russell Hoban Conventionblog
		A short film, captured with a mobile phone, of Russell Hoban reading from Come Dance With Me is now available on the Nomad Books Evening page of the convention website.
		The organisers of the Russell Hoban Some-Poasyum have drawn up an online feedback form for participants to fill in, to let us know their experience of the convention.
		We're just as keen to hear from you, in case there was anything we did which made it difficult for you to attend or anything we didn't do that you might have wanted to see.
	hoban2005.blogspot.com (848 words)

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