The Confession of a Child of the Century by Samuel Heather (eBook / ePub)

Autoren-Porträt von Thomas Rogers

Thomas Rogers (1927-2007) was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was the author of four novels, including the National Book Award finalists The Pursuit of Happiness and The Confession of a Child of the Century by Samuel Heather. His third novel is At the Shores, and his final work, Jerry Engels, is its sequel. David Susskind produced a film based on The Pursuit of Happiness starring Barbara Hershey and Michael Sarrazin.

Rogers graduated cum laude from Harvard University and received his doctorate from the University of Iowa in the program that is now the Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 1969, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was a frequent guest at Yaddo and the Camargo Foundation. He had essays published in the American Review, Esquire, the Iowa Review, and the American Scholar. He taught creative writing at Pennsylvania State University for three decades as a professor of English and fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies.

Pressezitat

“What a welcome book. What a very welcome book.” —John Cheever “That [Tom Rogers] is America’s Evelyn Waugh is one of the country’s best kept secrets.” —Philip Roth “Samuel is one of the best-realized characters of recent fiction.” —The New York Times  “A mad, brilliant, ambitious book in which a young man named Samuel Heather sweeps through the middle of the last century with the intellectual and linguistic assurance of Nabokov and the emotional reason of Dr. Seuss.” —The New York Review of Books