Connell, Evan S.

Connell, Evan S.

▪ American author
in full  Evan Shelby Connell, Jr. 
born Aug. 17, 1924, Kansas City, Mo., U.S.

      American writer whose works explore philosophical and cultural facets of the American experience.

      Connell attended Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., and the University of Kansas (A.B., 1947) and did graduate work at Stanford (California), Columbia (New York City), and San Francisco State universities. The stories in his first published work, the critically acclaimed The Anatomy Lesson and Other Stories (1957), are set in various regions of the United States and incorporate subject matter ranging from the near mythic to the mundane. His first novel, Mrs. Bridge (1959), dissects the life of a conventional upper-middle-class Kansas City matron who lacks a sense of purpose and conforms blindly to what is expected of her. Ten years later Connell published Mr. Bridge (1969), which relates the same story from the point of view of the husband. Both novels were adapted as the film Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990). Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn (1984; filmed for television, 1991), which retells an almost legendary clash of personalities and cultures, was a critical as well as popular success. Among Connell's other works are the novels The Diary of a Rapist (1966), The Connoisseur (1974), The Alchymist's Journal (1991), and Deus Lo Volt!: Chronicle of the Crusades (2000) and a book-length poem, Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel (1963). He also wrote Francisco Goya (2004), a biography of the Spanish artist, and a number of short-story collections, including Lost in Uttar Pradesh (2008).

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