Robert Coover in 1996. “I’ve engaged with folk tales and fairy tales all my writing life, as part of my attempted disruption of the myths that environ and sometimes govern us,” he once said.

Robert Coover, the American writer, who has died aged 92, was for more than 50 years a purveyor of tricksy, unclassifiable novels and stories intended as a riposte to traditional fiction, which in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Coover, the exuberant and rule-defying fiction writer and educator who devised new adventures for literature through such works as "The Babysitter" and "The Public Burning ...

Robert Coover, who turned fairy tales, folk stories and other conventions of literature on their head in a career that made him one of the most noted writers in postmodern American letters, died ...

Robert Coover, the American writer, who has died aged 92, was for more than 50 years a purveyor of tricksy, unclassifiable novels and stories intended as a riposte to traditional fiction, which in ...