The Palace Thief (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ethan Canin
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Self-discovery, Parents and children, Fathers, Loneliness, Wealth, Middle age, Old age or elderly people, Mathematics or mathematicians, Corporations
In his early thirties, Ethan Canin has not only begun an impressive career as a prose writer but has also finished a medical residency. His father, an orchestral violinist, taught and played in the East and Middle West before accepting a post with the San Francisco Symphony. Ethan began to write while in a private high school, encouraged by Danielle Steel, the romance novelist. At Stanford University he first studied engineering, then switched to English, and he had two short stories accepted by periodicals when he was still an undergraduate. He spent two years at the University of...
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