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Evan S. Connell
Evan Shelby Connell, Jr. (August 17, 1924 – January 10, 2013) was an American novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He also published under the name Evan S. Connell, Jr. His writing covered a variety of genres, although he has published most frequently in fiction.
In 2009, Connell was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize, for lifetime achievement. 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."〔(''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prizes ), home page〕
==Background==
Connell was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the only son of Evan S. Connell, Sr. (1890–1974), a physician, and Ruth Elton Connell. He had a sister Barbara (Mrs. Matthew Zimmermann) to whom he dedicated his novel ''Mrs. Bridge'' (1959). He graduated from Southwest High School in Kansas City in 1941. He started undergraduate work at Dartmouth College but joined the Navy in 1943 and became a pilot. After the end of World War II, he graduated from the University of Kansas in 1947, with a B.A. in English. He studied creative writing at Columbia University in New York and Stanford University in California.〔Lawrence M. Bensky, "Meet Evan Connell, Friend of Mr. and Mrs. Bridge", ''The New York Times'', April 20, 1969; retrieved on June 8, 2009〕 He never married, and lived and worked in San Francisco for decades.
Connell was found dead on January 10, 2013, at an assisted-living facility in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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