Date of Birth | 17-August-1939 | |
Place of Birth |
Medford (Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of America) |
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Nationality | United States of America | |
Also know as | Alexander L. Theroux | |
Profession | Novelist, Poet | |
Alexander Louis Theroux is an American novelist and poet whose best known novel is perhaps Darconville’s Cat which was selected by Anthony Burgess’s Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 – A Personal Choice in 1984 and in Larry McCaffery’s 20th Century’s Greatest Hits He was awarded the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1991 and the Clifton Fadiman Medal for Fiction in 2002 by the Mercantile Library in New York City. He is the brother of novelist Paul Theroux. |
Awards by Alexander Theroux |
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