John B. L. Goodwin
| John B. L. Goodwin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
John Blair Linn Goodwin 25 February 1912 Manhattan, New York, USA |
| Died | 19 January 1994 (aged 81) |
| Occupation | author, poet |
John Blair Linn Goodwin (1912–1994) was an American author and poet, best known for his story "The Cocoon" (1946), collected in Houghton Mifflin's The Best American Short Stories in 1947. A further short story was "Stone Still, Stone Cold" (1949)
Goodwin was a native of Manhattan and a world traveler. His other works include the 1940 children's book The Pleasant Pirate, 1952 novel The Idols and the Prey about Haiti, and 1963 novella A View From Fuji. He died at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in January 1994.
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