John Casey (novelist)
| John D. Casey | |
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| Born | 1939 Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | author |
| Years active | 1977-present |
| Notable work | Spartina, 1989 |
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John D. Casey (born 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and translator. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1989 for Spartina.
Casey went to school at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he is Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia. Among others, writer Breece D'J Pancake studied under him.
Casey's papers reside at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.
Casey's brother-in-law is Nobel Prize-winning physician Harold E. Varmus.
Casey's father is former Massachusetts representative Joseph E. Casey.
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.Nell Casey is the editor of the essay collection "Unholy Ghost" on depression and creativity, including essays by herself and her sister, and editor of a second essay collection "An Uncertain Inheritance" by contributors caring for family through illness and death.
He also has two daughters, Clare and Julia, from his second marriage to artist and calligrapher Rosamond Casey.
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