Russell Banks

Russell Banks is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize finalists Continental Drift and Cloudsplitter and the story collection American Standard (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2013), as well as poetry and nonfiction. The recipient of many awards, including the O. Henry and Best American Short Stories, he is a professor emeritus at Princeton University and a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Banks lives in upstate New York and Miami, Florida.

Photograph by Emma Dodge Hanson.

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