Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.  He was born on January 30, 1935 and died on September 16, 1984.  He married Virginia Alder on June 8, 1957, and the couple had one daughter, Ianthe Brautigan.  Brautigan and Alder divorced in 1970. For much of his life, Brautigan suffered from alcoholism and depression.  He is best known for his 1967 novel Trout Fishing in America.

Brautigan's novels include A Confederate General from Big Sur, Trout Fishing in America, In Watermelon Sugar, The Hawkline Monster, Willard and His Bowling Trophies, Sombrero Fallout, Dreaming of Babylon, The Tokyo-Montana Express, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away, and An Unfortunate Woman.

Brautigan's poetry collections include The Return of the Rivers, The Galilee Hitch-hiker, Lay the Marble Tea, The Octopus Frontier, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, Please Plant this Book, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mining Disaster, Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt, and Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork.

Brautigan's short story collection is titled Revenge of the Lawn.  His first novel, The God of the Martians, remains unpublished.

Brautigan envisioned The Library for Unpublished Works, which eventually was housed in The Brautigan Library until 1995, when it was moved to the Fletcher Free Library.  The collection, as well as The Brautigan Library, was moved to the Clark County Historical Museum in Vancouver, Washington in 2010.

W. P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe, cited Brautigan as his greatest literary influence.  Brautigan's daughter, Ianthe Elizabeth Brautigan, published You can't Catch Death in 2000.

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