Author: Robert Coover

Toby Olson has published eight novels, the most recent of which, The Blond Box, appeared from Fiction Collective-2 in 2003, and numerous books of poetry, including Human Nature (New Directions). A new novel, The Bitter Half, is forthcoming. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, Olson’s novel Seaview received the PEN/Faulkner award for The Most Distinguished Work of American Fiction in 1983. Toby Olson lives in Philadelphia and in North Truro, on Cape Cod.Robert Coover teaches in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. Coover”s first novel was The Origin of the Brunists. The Public Burning, his most well-known work, looks at the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg through the lens of magical realism. His later works include: Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears, the theme anthology A Night at the Movies and Pinocchio in Venice. Coover helped found the Electronic Literature Organization.