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Russell Banks, praised author of 'Cloudsplitter,' dies at 82

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Banks was a self-styled heir to 19th century writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman. He was a plumber's son who wrote often about working class families. Banks lived near John Brown's burial ground in North Elba, New York. Two of his books were adapted into films in the late 1990s.

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Russell Banks, praised author of 'Cloudsplitter,' dies at 82

Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as 'Affliction' and 'The Sweet Hereafter' in the wintry, rural communities of his native Northeast and imagined the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to the radical abolitionist John Brown, has died. He was 82.

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Russell Banks, author of The Sweet Hereafter and Cloudsplitter, dead at 82

Russell Banks, an award-winning American fiction writer who rooted such novels as Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter in the wintry, rural communities of the northeastern states has died. He was 82.

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Russell Banks, praised author of 'Cloudsplitter,' dies at 82

NEW YORK (AP) — Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as “Affliction” and “The Sweet Hereafter” in the wintry, rural communities of his native Northeast and imagined the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to the radical abolitionist John Brown in “Cloudsplitter," has died.

1 year ago·United States

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