Stanley Elkin (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Born in New York City on May 11, 1930, Stanley Elkin was raised in Chicago. His father, Philip, a highly successful traveling salesman for a costume-jewelry concern and an equally accomplished raconteur, had a pronounced influence on Elkin's writing, in terms of both style and subject. Just as important were the elder Elkin's fear of being thought less than he was and the four heart attacks that would cut short his career and then his life.
For all the rhetorical as well as geographical expansiveness of his fiction, Elkin stayed close to home, first by...
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