Novelist Robert Coover

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Novelist

Robert Coover

Living place: Iowa

Birthday: 4-2-1932 (92 years old)

Population of US 1932: 124,840,471

Global rank: #81647

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Who is Novelist Robert Coover?
An American author of novels and short stories, he is known for such works as Gerald's Party, Pinocchio in Venice, Briar Rose, and A Child Again. His most famous work, The Public Burning, focuses on the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg trials through the lens of magical realism.
His work falls into the genres of metafiction and fabulation.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After graduating from Indiana University and the University of Chicago, he worked as a teacher and writer-in-residence at Brown University and other colleges.

Family life info

He grew up in Iowa. He published his first literary work, The Origin of the Brunists, in 1966.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Robert Coover?
His 1977 novel, The Public Burning, features Richard Nixon as a character.

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When was Novelist Robert Coover born?
Robert Coover birthday 4-2-1932 (at the age of 92).
Where is Novelist Robert Coover's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Robert Coover was born in Iowa, . is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Goat. Robert Coover's global rank is 81647 and whose rank is 973 in list of famous Novelist. Population of US in 1932 is about 124,840,471 persons.
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Events in 1932 and 4-2

Events in US in the birth year of Robert Coover

  • Congress sets up Reconstruction Finance Corporation to stimulate economy.
  • Veterans, known as the Bonus Marchers , march on Washington—most leave after Senate rejects payment of cash bonuses; others removed by troops under Douglas MacArthur.
  • Charles A. Lindbergh 's baby son kidnapped, killed. (Bruno Richard Hauptmann arrested in 1934, convicted in 1935, executed in 1936.)
  • Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly Atlantic solo (May 20-21). Background: Amelia Earhart's Legacy Remembered. Also see: Famous Firsts in Aviation

Birthday Robert Coover (4-2) in history

  • Day 4-2 year 1783: England proclaimed the formal end to the hostilities with the United States.
  • Day 4-2 year 1787: The Massachusetts peasant's revolt, Shays, was defeated.
  • Day 4-2 year 1789: George Washington and John Adams are elected the president and vice president of the United States.
  • Day 4-2 year 1861: Delegates from six southern states met at Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.
  • Day 4-2 year 1945: Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at the Yalta Conference.
  • Day 4-2 year 1948: Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gained independence from the United Kingdom.
  • Day 4-2 year 1969: The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasir Arafat head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
  • Day 4-2 year 1974: Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
  • Day 4-2 year 1976: Benjamin Britten, British composer, died.
  • Day 4-2 year 2003: The country of Yugoslavia disappeared, to be replaced by the loose federation of Serbia and Montenegro.
  • Day 4-2 year 2004: The Massachusetts Supreme Court declared that gays had the right to marry.
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