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Charles William Goyen (April 24, 1915 – August 30, 1983) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, editor, and teacher. Born in a small town in East Texas, these roots would influence his work for his entire life.
Nov 25, 2015 · At the age of 68, Goyen, who drank too much and was epileptic, died of cancer after a lingering illness 33 years ago, during which time the dust of neglect has covered his work. Davis’ life of Goyen may inspire readers to dust off and open the works—among the finest in world fiction.
Jun 18, 2015 · Unlike Truman Capote, William Goyen matured without betraying his sensitivity, he became stronger without surrendering the qualities which made him both human and subtle, able to handle overtones in relationships without destroying them in the process.
Oct 13, 2015 · In his revealing new biography of the writer William Goyen, It Starts with Trouble, Clark Davis offers this episode from Goyen’s childhood as a kind of primal scene: a boy forced so deep into...
Sep 23, 2016 · Texas author William Goyen, who died in 1983 at the age of 68, is often an afterthought in discussions of Lone Star literature. But a new biography by the University of Denver’s Clark Davis ...
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Jun 18, 2015 · Since his death in 1982, Goyen’s own life and work have been championed by his literary executor, the poet Reginald Gibbons, and by literary journals such as TriQuarterly. Why then, you might ask, have most people never heard of him?
William Goyen was a writer of startling originality and deep artistic commitment whose work attracted an international audience and the praise of such luminarie...
