Evan S Connell
Evan S. Connell, a novelist, poet and short story writer, was born on 17 August, 1924, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Connell attended Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., and the University of Kansas. He went on to do graduate work at Stanford (California), Columbia (New York City), and San Francisco State universities.
Connell’s first published work was the critically acclaimed The Anatomy Lesson and Other Stories (1957). His first novel, Mrs. Bridge (1959), dissects the life of a conventional upper-middle-class Kansas City matron who lacks a sense of purpose and conforms blindly to what is expected of her. Ten years later Connell published Mr. Bridge (1969), which relates the same story from the point of view of the husband. Both novels were adapted as the film Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990). Connell’s 1984 biography of Custer, Son of the Morning Star, won critical acclaim, was a bestseller, and was made into a television mini-series in 1991.
Evan S. Connell lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
