My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
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.