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Russell Banks
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Russell Banks was born in Massachusetts in 1940.
He is the author of 15 works of fiction, including the novels Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, and, most recently, The Darling, as well as five short-story collections. Two of his novels, The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction, have been made into award-winning motion pictures, and three others are currently in development.
Banks is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is past President of the International Parliament of Writers, as well as the founding President of the North American Network of Cities of Asylum. He is the Howard G. B. Clarke University Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at Princeton and is currently serving as the New York State Author. |
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WORLD VOICES EVENTS
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 Thursday, April 27 at 10:00
An Evening Without... |
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Banks in the PEN Audio Archive
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Listen to his reading of Mark Twain's "The Person Sitting in Darkness" from the 2004 State of Emergency. >>More |
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