He married Darlene Bennett, who was working as a sales clerk at the time they had one daughter and later divorced. While he was awarded a scholarship to attend Colgate University, he dropped out six weeks into university and travelled south instead, with the "intention of joining Fidel Castro's insurgent army in Cuba, but wound up working in a department store in Lakeland, Florida". His father deserted the family when Banks was aged 12. Russell Earl Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on March 28, 1940, and grew up "in relative poverty." He is the son of Florence (née Taylor), a homemaker, and Earl Banks, a plumber, and was raised in Barnstead, New Hampshire. īanks was a member of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His stories usually revolve around his own childhood experiences, and often reflect "moral themes and personal relationships".
His novels are known for "detailed accounts of domestic strife and the daily struggles of ordinary often-marginalized characters". Russell Earl Banks (Ma– January 7, 2023) was an American writer of fiction and poetry. Banks talks about Lost Memory of Skin on Bookbits radio in 2011
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