This author wrote about marine biologist Guy Schuler and Irish aristocrat Peter Gregory in his unpublished play Whales and Men. One of his novels opens with an epigraph by Paul Valery that "your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint," follow
This author wrote about marine biologist Guy Schuler and Irish aristocrat Peter Gregory in his unpublished play Whales and Men. One of his novels opens with an epigraph by Paul Valery that "your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint," followed by a quote from Jakob Boehme that "sorrow is a thing that is swallowed up in death." A character created by this author is jailed for having sex with watermelons and befriends an upper class man who's abandons his wife to live on a houseboat in McAnally Flats - that character is Gene Harrogate. Another of this writer's characters shares his name with a radio evangelist who hosts the Jimmy Blevins Gospel Hour.  This author, whose first novel was The Orchard Keeper, wrote about the siblings Culla and Rinthy in his next book Outer Dark. FTP, name this American author of Suttree, who wrote about Lacy Rawlins and his friend John Grady Cole in All the Pretty Horses.
This author wrote about marine biologist Guy Schuler and Irish aristocrat Peter Gregory in his unpublished play Whales and Men.
Cormac McCarthy