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Russell Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts on March 28, 1940 and is an American writer of fiction and poetry. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Banks is a member of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous international prizes and awards. He has written fiction and, more recently, non-fiction, with Dreaming up America. His main works include the novels Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter, and Affliction. The latter two novels were each made into feature films in 1997.

Many of Banks's works reflect his working-class upbringing. His stories often show people facing tragedy and downturns in everyday life, expressing sadness and self-doubt, but also showing resilience and strength in the face of their difficulties.

Banks has also written short stories, some of which appear in the collection The Angel on the Roof, as well as poetry.

Banks was the 1985 recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for fiction. Cloudsplitter was purported to have been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction that eventually went to Michael Cunningham's The Hours. Banks was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.

He is married to poet Chase Twichell and lives in upstate New York.

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Russell Banks Bibliography

1974 Snow

1975 Searching for Survivors

1975 Family Life

1978 The New World

1978 Hamilton Stark

1980 The Book of Jamaica

1981 Trailerpark

1983 The Relation of My Imprisonment

1985 Continental Drift

1986 Success Stories

1989 Affliction

1991 The Sweet Hereafter

1995 Rule of the Bone

1998 Cloudsplitter

1998 Invisible Stranger

2000 The Angel on the Roof

2004 The Darling

2008 The Reserve

2008 Dreaming Up America

2011 Lost Memory of Skin

VJ Books presents Russell Banks!

The DarlingSigned First Edition

Lost Memory of SkinSigned First Edition

The ReserveSigned First Edition

The Darling
Signed First Edition

Lost Memory of Skin
Signed First Edition

The Reserve
Signed First Edition