JOHN CASEY (NOVELIST)

'John Casey' (born 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American writer and translator. He won the National Book Award in 1989 for his novel ''Spartina''.
Casey went to school at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the University of Iowa. He currently lives with his wife and daughter in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he is Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia. Casey has two adult daughters from his first marriage to novelist Jane Barnes, Nell Casey and Maud Casey. Maud Casey is a published author in her own right, with two well-reviewed novels and a collection of short stories to her credit.

Contents

List of novels

External links

List of novels

★ ''Spartina'' (1989)

★ ''The Half-life of Happiness'' (1999)

★ ''Testimony and Demeanor'' (originally published in 1979, reissued in 2005)

★ translator (from Italian) for ''You're an Animal, Viskovitz!'' by Alessandro Boffa (2002)

★ ''An American Romance''

External links

★ John Casey author spotlight at Random House of Canada

★ 1990 audio interview of John Casey, RealAudio

★ Inscription in Spartina