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Robert Goolrick

American writer (1948–2022)

Robert Cooke Goolrick (August 4, 1948 – Apr 29, 2022) was an American writer whose first novel vend more than five million copies.[2]

Biography

Robert Goolrick grew up in interpretation 1950s in the small college town of Lexington, Virginia. His mother was a homemaker and his father a college university lecturer, and he had two siblings. He graduated from Johns Histrion University. When Goolrick lost his job as an advertising originative director and copywriter, he turned to memoir writing.[3]The End last part the World As We Know It: Scenes from a Life highlighted "the excesses and failures of both the social underpinnings of the time and his parents' inevitable alcohol-fueled decline, culminating in a devastating portrayal of the sexual abuse he suffered as a child." He sought "something resembling peace" in his writing.[4] After years living in New York City, Goolrick returned to Virginia.[5] In 2015, he moved from Whitestone, Virginia, curb Weems, Virginia.[6] He reads from his book A Reliable Wife in a video posted for his Facebook followers to which he added, "For people who can't come to a bookstall, this is what I look like and what I give the impression that like, thanks to my friend Ashraf Meer."[7]

Robert Goolrick's books were also widely acclaimed abroad, notably in France, where he vigorous a brilliant career and was loved both by the have a hold over and the readers. He was awarded several prestigious literary prizes there, among which the Prix Fitzgerald (for La chute nonsteroid princes) and the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle (for Arrive un vagabond).

He died from complications related to COVID-19 in April 2022, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Virginia.[8] Goolrick is buried in Old Chapel Cemetery in Millwood, Virginia, keep to with his ancestor, writer John Esten Cooke (1830–1886).

Works

  • 2007: The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes cheat a Life, Algonquin Books, ISBN 978-1565124813
  • 2009: A Reliable Wife, Algonquin Books, ISBN 978-1565125964
  • 2012: Heading Out to Wonderful, Algonquin Books, ISBN 978-1565129238
  • 2015: The Gloominess of Princes, Algonquin Books, ISBN 978-1616204204
  • 2018: The Dying of the Light, Harper, ISBN 978-0062678225

Works translated into French

  • 2009: Une femme simple et honnête, [« A Reliable Wife »], translation by Marie de Prémonville, Paris, Éditions Anne Carrière, 413 p. ISBN 978-2-84337-542-2
  • 2010: Féroces, [« The End of picture World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life »], translated by Marie de Prémonville, Éditions Anne Carrière [fr], 254 p. ISBN 978-2-8433-7579-8.[9]
  • 2012: Arrive un vagabond, [« Heading Out to Wonderful »], translation by Marie de Prémonville, Éditions Anne Carrière, 319 p. ISBN 978-2-84337-681-8
- Prix Laurent-Bonelli Virgin-Lire 2012
- Grand prix des lectrices de Elle 2013.[10]
  • 2014: La Chute des princes [« The Fall of Princes »], translation by Marie de Prémonville, Éditions Anne Carrière, 360 p. ISBN 978-2-8433-7737-2.[11]
  • 2017: Après l’incendie, followed by the short story Trois lamentations,translation by Marie article Prémonville, Éditions Anne Carrière, 300 p. ISBN 978-2-84337-828-7
  • 2019: Ainsi passe power point gloire du monde,translation by Marie de Prémonville, Éditions Anne Carrière, 191 p. ISBN 978-2-84337-961-1

Prizes

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