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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.)
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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...

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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...

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
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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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Robert Olen Butler

About 96 pages (28,857 words) in 15 products