Newton Thornburg

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Newton Kendall Thornburg (born May 13, 1929 in Harvey (Illinois) , † May 9, 2011 in Bothell , Washington) was an American writer .

Life

Thornburg grew up in Chicago Heights , a suburb of Chicago . He studied art at Illinois Wesleyan University and the University of Iowa . In the following years he tried to make a name for himself as a painter in New York, but after a few years moved back to Illinois with his wife Karin and worked there in various jobs until he was successful as a copywriter and spent ten years in Milwaukee , St. Louis and Santa Barbara lived.

On the side he started to write and published his first novel Gentleman Born in 1967 . Thornburg sold the film rights to his third novel To Die in California (1973) for $ 100,000 (the film was never made) and bought a farm in the Ozark Mountains in Missouri for the money , lived there with his family and wrote other novels. including his most successful book, Cutter and Bone (1976), which was filmed in 1981 with Jeff Bridges .

In 1980 he moved to Seattle and died in the suburb of Bothell in 2011.

Novels

  • Gentleman Born , 1967
  • Knockover , 1968
    • The mice are brought by Nikolaus, German by Elisabeth Simon; Heyne, Munich 1970. ISBN 3-404-00541-4
  • To Die in California , 1973
  • Cutter and Bone , 1976
  • Black Angus 1979
  • Valhalla , 1980
  • Dreamland , 1983
  • Beautiful Kate , 1984
  • The Lion at the Door , 1990
  • A Man's Game , 1996
  • Eve's Men , 1998

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personal data
SURNAME Thornburg, Newton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thornburg, Newton Kendall (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Harvey (Illinois)
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 2011
Place of death Bothell