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Biography

Name: Russell (Conwell) Hoban
Variant Name: Russell (Conwell) Hoban, Russell Conwell Hoban
Birth Date: February 4, 1925
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Jewish
Gender: Male

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Biography of Russell (Conwell) Hoban
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Russell Hoban is a writer whose genius is expressed with equal brilliance in books both for children and for adults. Since the late 1950s, Hoban has created some of the best-known characters in postwar children's literature: Frances the Badger, Charlie...


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After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same...


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Russell Hoban Information
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Russell Conwell Hoban (born February 4, 1925) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magic realism, poetry, and children's books. He lives in...


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The Washington Post
To me, Russell Hoban's perfect ...
08/01/2004: 1,179 words, approx. 4 pages
HER NAME WAS LOLA By Russell Hoban. Arcade. 207 pp. $24To me, Russell Hoban's perfectly cadenced, slyly comic prose is ambrosia. I once asserted that he is the only living writer to have written masterpieces for every age group, from beginning readers to...
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The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Russell Hoban. Her Name Was Lola.(Book Review)
09/22/2004: 438 words, approx. 2 pages
Russell Hoban. Her Name Was Lola. Arcade, 2004. 224 pp. $24.00. Hoban is the author of Ridley Walker. That novel--surely one of the most interesting achievements of the last forty years--is a meditation on the postnuclear world and word. He creates a...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
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There are moments in this strange novel [The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz] when the full meaning is almost within grasp; but the moment passes and the reader is left hanging on to the present pleasures of comic, heroic and romantic episodes. Russell Hoban extended his reputation beyond the small enclosed world of children's books in 1969 when The Mouse and His Child, which came out with a children's book imprint in the way that The Hobbit did, found devoted readers of all ages…. ...


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