William Hoffman (writer)

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William Hoffman (born May 16, 1925 in Charleston , West Virginia , † September 12, 2009 in Farmville, Virginia ) was an American lawyer and writer .

Life

Hoffman was founded in 1925 as the second child of Julia Beckley and Henry William Hoffman Henry William Hoffman born. He attended the public schools in Charleston and went to the Kentucky Military Institute after graduating , which he successfully completed in 1943. He joined the United States Army in September 1943 and served as a medic in Normandy and in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II . Due to his health, he left the US Army in February 1946.

Immediately afterwards he attended Hampden-Sydney College in Hampden-Sydney in Prince Edward County , Virginia, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1949 . He studied law at what is now Washington and Lee University in Lexington , where he also took a creative writing course . He published his first short story in 1950, left law school, and enrolled in the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in Iowa City , Iowa, where he stayed for a year.

After working for the Evening Star (in Washington, DC ) and for the US Department of Defense and later in New York City for the former Chase National Bank , Hoffman returned to Hampden-Sydney. He taught at the college from 1952 to 1959 and worked as a writer from 1966 to 1973 before he retired. Hoffman married Alice Sue Richardson in 1957 and the couple had two children.

William Hoffman was the author of fourteen novels, four collections of short stories, and two plays. His terrifying experience as a medic in Europe during World War II dominated his earliest writings, including The Trumpet Unblown (1955) and Yancey's War (1966). Hoffman is also acclaimed for novels that combine character-based portraits of the South with action-mystery plot, and for fonts that combine tragic intensity with humor.

Works

Novels

  • 1955: The Trumpet Unblown
  • 1958: Days in the Yellow Leaf
  • 1960: A Place for My Head
  • 1963: The Dark Mountains
  • 1966: Yancey's War
  • 1970: A Walk to the River
  • 1973: A Death of Dreams
  • 1982: The Land That Drank the Rain
  • 1985: Godfires
  • 1990: Furors Die
  • 1998: Tidewater Blood (German atonement . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-426-61359-7 )
  • 2000: Blood and Guile (German battue . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-426-61960-5 )
  • 2002: Wild Thorn
  • 2005: Read

Short story collections

  • 1978: Virginia Reels
  • 1988: By Land, By Sea
  • 1994: Follow Me Home
  • 1999: Doors

Other works

  • 1996: Brother Frank: A True Story: One Man's Inspiring Journey from Hatred and Violence to Faith and Love , (Biography)

Awards

Web links

Evidence, comments

  1. ↑ Risk of confusion with the American politician of the same name (1825–1895)
  2. ↑ see Encyclopedia Virginia
  3. ^ Biographical information from West Virginia Wesleyan College
  4. ↑ Together with Frank Minucci
personal data
SURNAME Hoffman, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffman, Henry William (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Charleston , West Virginia
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 2009
Place of death Farmville, Virginia