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 ...
"Robert Coover writes from life, but not the one he has lived out in the world," author Ben Marcus once wrote of him. "He writes from his life as a reader of narratives. His personal experience ...
The writer Robert Coover died Oct. 5 at the age of 92. Coover was memorialized in a New York Times obituary, and yet, I’m going to guess that most readers of this column, people who are more ...
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 ...
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 ...