Russell Banks | PBS NewsHour

Publish date: 2024-07-17
Russell Banks, award-winning author of ‘Cloudsplitter,’ dies at 82

Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who imagined the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to the radical abolitionist John Brown in “Cloudsplitter," has died. He was 82.

By Hillel Italie, Associated Press

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