![]() ![]() ![]() Bridge (1969) are bittersweet, gently satirical portraits of a conventional, unimaginative upper middle-class couple living in Kansas City from the 1920s to the 1940s. He never married, and lived and worked in San Francisco and Sausalito, California from 1954 to 1989, when he moved to Santa Fe, N.M.Ĭonnell was found dead on January 10, 2013, at an assisted-living facility in Santa Fe, New Mexico. ![]() He studied creative writing at Columbia University in New York and Stanford University in California. After the end of World War II, he graduated from the University of Kansas in 1947, with a B.A. He started undergraduate work at Dartmouth College but joined the Navy in 1943 and became a pilot. He graduated from Southwest High School in Kansas City in 1941. Matthew Zimmermann), to whom he dedicated his novel Mrs. (1890–1974), a physician, and Ruth Elton Connell. On April 23, 2010, he was awarded a Los Angeles Times Book Prize: the Robert Kirsch Award, for "a living author with a substantial connection to the American West, whose contribution to American letters deserves special recognition." Background Ĭonnell was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the only son of Evan S. In 2009, Connell was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize, for lifetime achievement. novelist, short-story writer, essayist and author of epic historical works. Bridge, Son of the Morning StarĮvan Shelby Connell Jr. ![]()
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