Robert Coover
Robert Coover | |
|---|---|
Coover in 2009 | |
| Born | February 4, 1932 Charles City, Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | October 5, 2024 (aged 92) Warwick, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | Southern Illinois University Carbondale Indiana University Bloomington (BA) University of Chicago (MA) |
| Period | 1966–2023 |
| Genre | Short story, novel |
| Spouse |
Maria Pilar Sans i Mallafré
(m. 1959) |
| Children | 3; including Sara |
Robert Lowell Coover (February 4, 1932 – October 5, 2024) was an American novelist, short story writer, and T. B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. He became a proponent of electronic literature and was a founder of the Electronic Literature Organization.