Evan S. Connell
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Evan Shelby Connell Jr. (August 17, 1924 – January 10, 2013) was a U.S. novelist, poet, and short-story writer.
He also published under the name Evan S. Connell Jr. His writing covered a variety of genres, although he published most frequently in fiction. In 2009, Connell was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize, for lifetime achievement.
On April 23, 2010, he was awarded a Los Angeles Times Book Prize: the Robert Kirsch Award, for "a living author with a substantial connection to the American West, whose contribution to American letters deserves special recognition."
Career
Mrs. Bridge (1959) and Mr. Bridge (1969), Connell's bittersweet, lightly satirical portraits of a middle-class couple in Kansas City from the 1920s to the 1940s. The couple continues to live up to social aspirations and be excellent parents, but they are unfortunately unprepared to deal with the emotional distance between themselves and their children and each other, as well as between each other.
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, was adapted as a 1990 Merchant-Ivory motion picture. Critics generally praised the film.
Melvin Isaacs, aged 17, and his experiences in naval aviation school during the Second World War, is Connell's 1960 book, The Patriot. Melvin is confronted with the difficult reality of his preparations and the possibility of his "washing out" (failing). Melvin's efforts to explain the truth of his father's illness were turned down. Melvin and his father Jacob are similar in several ways to those of Douglas and Mr. Bridge. Although not thoroughly researched, The Patriot includes some amusing satire and spectacular scenes of aviation.
Connell's 1984 sweeping account of George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Son of the Morning Star, received critical recognition, and was adapted as a television film/miniseries in 1991. Four Emmy Awards were given to the film.
Dorothy Parker referred to Connell as "a writer with a refined style and an astonishing variety."