Russell Banks was a member of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous international prizes and awards. He has written fiction, and more recently, non-fiction, with Dreaming up America. His main works include the novels Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter, and Affliction. The latter two novels were each made into feature films in 1997.
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Pow Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience
with Grace Paley, Wanda Coleman, Gertrude Stein and Stanley Elkin
with David Foster Wallace, Raymond Carver and Denis Johnson
with Arturo Patten
with Daniel Halpern, Tobias Wolff, Edmund Keeley and Paul Bowles
with Thornton Wilder
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with Jack Cady and David Madden