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John Hawkes Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Aug 17, 1925
  • Died: May 15, 1998

John Hawkes, born John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes, Jr., was a postmodern American novelist, known for the intensity of his work, which suspended some traditional constraints of narrative fiction.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me. fear

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another. experience