Quote of the day
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Robert Coover
Born: February 4, 1932
Died: October 5, 2024 (aged 92)
Bio: Robert Lowell Coover was an American novelist, short story writer, and professor emeritus in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He was generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.
Known for:
- The Public Burning (1977)
- The Origin of the Brunists (1966)
- Pricksongs & Descants (1969)
- The Brunist Day of Wrath (2014)