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Robert Olen Butler

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Biography

Name: Robert Olen Butler, (Jr.)
Variant Name: Robert Olen Butler, Robert Olen Butler, Jr.
Birth Date: January 20, 1945
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Robert Olen Butler, (Jr.)
6,798 words, approx. 23 pages
As of 1996 Butler's publications include eight novels, a prize-winning collection of short stories, and numerous contributions to respected journals and reviews. His defining themes are the suffering that results from thwarted desire and the intimacy...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Robert Olen Butler Information
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Robert Olen Butler Jr. (b. January 20, 1945) is an American fiction writer. His short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1992) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in...


News and Journals
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
In Town: Robert Olen Butler
10/17/2004: 181 words, approx. 1 pages
Will Robert Olen Butler ever be able to top "A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain," the collection of stories that won him the Pulitzer Prize and made his literary reputation? Decide for yourself. He comes to Shorewood this month to promote his...
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The Boston Globe
whispering to himself In a strange book from a good writer, Robert Olen Butler roams the border between lust and literature
01/30/1994: 1,356 words, approx. 5 pages
THEY WHISPER By Robert Olen Butler. Holt. 333 pp. $22.50. Gail Caldwell is book editor of the Globe. If Henry Miller's sex-drenched fiction indeed "irrigated" American prose, as Norman Mailer once laudatorily insisted, surely the plows of Lawrence and Joyce had...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Interview by Robert Olen Butler and Missouri Review
6,707 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following interview, originally conducted in February 1994, Butler discusses his career as a novelist and the influence of the theater and playwriting on his work.
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Critical Essay by Lorrie Smith
3,326 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following essay, Smith asserts that They Whisper is a well-written, complex novel that must be read in a post-Vietnam War context.
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Critical Review by Susie Linfield
1,655 words, approx. 6 pages
In the following review, Linfield criticizes The Deep Green Sea for rehashing themes Butler has previously addressed, such as erotic love, suicide, the Vietnam War, and memory.
 


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