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 in declining health in recent months. The writer TC Boyle said on X that Coover had been “a friend and mentor to me since I was in my early twenties. “Robert Coover writes from life, but not the one he has lived out in the world,” author Ben Marcus once wrote of him. His personal experience, which he draws on for his work, is the experience he has had inside of texts.

Source: Indian Express October 07, 2024 03:14 UTC