The writer Robert Coover died Oct. 5 at the age of 92. Coover was memorialized in a New York Times obituary, and yet, I’m going to guess that most readers of this column, people who are more ...

When I transferred to Bard from UCLA in 1966, the first class I signed up for at that small liberal arts college in the Hudson Valley was a seminar on “Don Quixote” taught by a young writer ...

Robert Coover, the American writer, who has died aged 92, was for more than 50 years a purveyor of tricksy, unclassifiable novels and stories intended as a riposte to traditional fiction, which in ...

Robert Coover, master of postmodern fiction, dies at 92 He turned fairy tales, folk stories and other conventions on their head, becoming a leading member of a movement that defined his literary era.

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Coover, the exuberant and rule-defying fiction writer and educator who devised new adventures for literature through such works as “The Babysitter” and “The Public ...

Coover died surrounded by family on Saturday at a care home in Warwick, England, his daughter Sara Caldwell told The Associated Press on Sunday. Caldwell, an author and filmmaker, said he had been ...

Once called “probably the funniest and most malicious” of the postmodernists, his books reflected a career-long interest in reimagining folk stories, fairy tales and political myths.