About
American novelist, short story writer, and critic who became known for The Tunnel and Omensetter's Luck. He won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.
Before Fame
He studied at Kenyon College and Cornell University.
Trivia
He was awarded grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
Family Life
He was born in Fargo, North Dakota. He married Mary Pat O'Kelly in 1952.
Associated With
While at Cornell, he briefly studied under Ludwig Wittgenstein.
