Russell banks bone6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Terry Gross interviewed him in 1989 when he had just published "Affliction." That novel asks if it's possible to break the chain of male violence. Russell Banks taught writing at Princeton University. His novels "Continental Drift" and "Cloudsplitter" about the abolitionist John Brown were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. And the film version of Banks' "The Sweet Hereafter" won the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival. But Banks' father also was an alcoholic and abusive, memories the son dealt with by becoming a writer and examining them in such novels as "Affliction." A movie version of that novel won an Oscar for actor James Coburn. In the early 1960s, he was a pipefitter working for his father, who, like his father before him, was a plumber. ![]() ![]() Banks was born in 1940 and grew up in Barnstead, N.H. Russell Banks, the author whose bestselling books include "Affliction," "Continental Drift" and "The Sweet Hereafter," died of cancer Sunday. ![]()
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