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Russell Banks

Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. As a novelist, Banks is best known for his "detailed accounts of domestic strife and the daily struggles of ordinary often-marginalized characters".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/52047/Russell-Banks/52047rellinks/Related-Links )〕 His stories usually revolve around his own childhood experiences, and often reflect "moral themes and personal relationships".〔
Banks is a member of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
== Biography ==
Russell Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts on March 28, 1940 and grew up "in relative poverty".〔 His father, Earl, deserted the family when Banks was aged 12. While he was awarded a scholarship to attend Colgate University, he dropped out six weeks into university and travelled south instead, with the "intention of joining Fidel Castro's insurgent army in Cuba, but wound up working in a department store in Lakeland, Florida".〔 He married a sales clerk and they had a daughter.
According to an interview with ''The Independent'', he started to write when he was living in Miami in the late 1950s, though an interview with ''The Paris Review'' dates this to Banks's subsequent spell living in Boston. He moved back to New England in 1964 and then to North Carolina, where he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, funded by the family of his second wife, Mary Gunst.〔〔〔 In Chapel Hill, Banks was involved in Students for a Democratic Society and in civil-rights protests.〔 In 1976, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Russell Banks )〕 Banks divorced Mary Gunst in 1977 after 14 years of marriage. He was subsequently married to Kathy Walton, an editor at Harper & Row, for five years.〔
Banks now lives in Keene, upstate New York, though spends the winters in Miami. He was a New York State Author for 2004–2006. He is also Artist-in-Residence at the University of Maryland. He has taught creative writing at Princeton University. He is married to the poet Chase Twichell, his fourth wife.〔 Banks has four daughters from his previous marriages.〔
Banks was the 1985 recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for fiction. ''Continental Drift'' and ''Cloudsplitter'' were finalists for the 1986 and 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction respectively.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1986 Finalists )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Fiction )〕 Banks was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf )

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