Alexander Theroux

Novelist, Author

1939 –

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Who is Alexander Theroux?

Alexander Louis Theroux is an American novelist and poet whose best known novel is perhaps Darconville’s Cat which was selected by Anthony Burgess’s Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 – A Personal Choice in 1984 and in Larry McCaffery’s 20th Century’s Greatest Hits He was awarded the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1991 and the Clifton Fadiman Medal for Fiction in 2002 by the Mercantile Library in New York City. He is the brother of novelist Paul Theroux.

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Born
Aug 17, 1939
Medford
Also known as
  • Alexander L. Theroux
Siblings
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • PhD, University of Virginia
    English Literature
    ( - 1968)
Lived in
  • Connecticut

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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