Robert Coover
Robert Lowell Coover (born Feb 4, 1932) is an American novelist, short story writer, and T.B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. Between studying undergr
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Robert Lowell Coover (born Feb 4, 1932) is an American novelist, short story writer, and T.B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. Between studying undergraduate Slavic Studies and a Master's degree in Humanities, he served in the US Navy. His novels and short stories usually address Communism and US politics through fabulation, metafiction and occasionally magic realism. Coover's first novel was The Origin of the Brunists, in which the sole survivor of a mine disaster starts a religious cult. His second book,The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., deals with the role of the creator. His best-known work is, The Public Burning.
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