In addition to Paul Grimes, this author created such characters as Recktall Brown, who corrupts the idealistic artist Wyatt Gwyon, as well as an eleven-year-old tycoon who causes the crash of the stock market.
His nonfiction was collected in The Rush for Second Place, while one of his novels opens with some boys batting a dead dove back and forth and goes on to tell the story of a con man who works for the Rev. Elton Ude, loves the adulterous Liz, and is contrasted with the geologist McCandless. In addition to Paul Grimes, this author created such characters as Recktall Brown, who corrupts the idealistic artist Wyatt Gwyon, as well as an eleven-year-old tycoon who causes the crash of the stock market. His final work, Agape Agape, was published posthumously in 2002, eight years after his National Book Award winning work about Oscar Crease, A Frolic of His Own.  FTP, identify this experimental novelist who wrote Carpenter's Gothic, JR, and The Recognitions.
His nonfiction was collected in The Rush for Second Place, while one of his novels opens with some boys batting a dead dove back and forth and goes on to tell the story of a con man who works for the Rev. Elton Ude, loves the adulterous Liz, and is contrasted with the geologist McCandless.
William Gaddis