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Robert Boswell (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

A product of Missouri, Kentucky, and the American West, Robert Boswell is a figure whose works place him among those top-rate fiction writers who rarely make national best-seller lists or receive sustained attention from the critics. Nevertheless, since the 1980’s, he has published provoking works that cannot be ignored by serious readers of American literature.

Boswell was born on December 8, 1953, in Sikeston, Missouri, to middle-class parents, Albert Russell Boswell, a teacher, and Annelle Boswell, a real estate agent. Robert Boswell was to spend most of his early childhood...

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