Gilbert Sorrentino
Novelist, Author
1929 – 2006
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Who was Gilbert Sorrentino?
Gilbert Sorrentino was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, teacher, and editor.
In over twenty-five works of fiction and poetry, Sorrentino explored the comic and formal possibilities of language and literature. His insistence on the primacy of language and his forays into metafiction mark him as a postmodernist, but he is also known for his ear for American speech and his attention to the particularities of place, especially of his native Brooklyn.
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- Born
- Apr 27, 1929
Brooklyn - Children
- Ethnicity
- Italian American
- Nationality
- Italy
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Brooklyn College
- Lived in
- Brooklyn
- Died
- May 18, 2006
New York City
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on July 23, 2013
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