Russell Banks

Russell Banks

Russell Banks was born in 1940 and died in 2023., Russell Banks has written at least 54 books. Their most popular book is Rule of the Bone with 25 saves with an average rating of 4.14⭐.

They are best known for writing in the genres one, asdfsa, and Asdfsa.

mone, asdfsa, and Asdfsa are their most common moods.

Author Bio

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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Rule of the Bone
Rule of the Bone
  • Russell Banks
4.1412 reads
The Sweet Hereafter
The Sweet Hereafter
  • Russell Banks
4.177 reads
Cloudsplitter
Cloudsplitter
  • Russell Banks
2.674 reads
The Writer's Library
The Writer's Library
  • Nancy Pearl
  • Jeff Schwager
3.53 reads
Affliction
Affliction
  • Russell Banks
43 reads
Continental Drift
Continental Drift
  • Russell Banks
43 reads
The Lost Memory of Skin
The Lost Memory of Skin
  • Russell Banks
3.53 reads
American Spirits
American Spirits
  • Russell Banks
00 reads
A Walk on the Wild Side
A Walk on the Wild Side
  • Nelson Algren
44 reads
A permanent member of the family
A permanent member of the family
  • Russell Banks
42 reads
Unholy Ghost
Unholy Ghost
    31 read
    Moonbath
    Moonbath
    • Yanick Lahens
    • Emily Gogolak (Translator)
    00 reads
    Foregone
    Foregone
    • Russell Banks
    3.52 reads
    The Lost Memory of Skin
    The Lost Memory of Skin
    • Russell Banks
    52 reads
    The Darling
    The Darling
    • Russell Banks
    32 reads
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    The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction

    The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American Stories Since 1970
    • Amy Bloom
    • Kate Braverman
    • Robert Olen Butler
    • Ethan Canin
    • Raymond Carver
    • Sandra Cisneros
    • Michael Cunningham
    • Sherman Alexie
    • Stuart Dybek
    • Tony Earley
    • Louise Erdrich
    • Richard Ford
    • David Gates
    • Tim Gautreaux
    • Ron Hansen
    • Amy Hempel
    • Denis Johnson
    • Edward P. Jones
    • Margaret Atwood
    • Thom Jones
    • David Michael Kaplan
    • Janet Kauffman
    • Jamaica Kincaid
    • David Leavitt
    • Reginald McKnight
    • Lorrie Moore
    • Bharati Mukherjee
    • Joyce Carol Oates
    • Cade Bambara
    • Tim O'Brien
    • Cynthia Ozick
    • Annie Proulx
    • Mark Richard
    • Lee Smith
    • Susan Sontag
    • Amy Tan
    • Russell Banks
    • John Barth
    • Donald Barthelme
    • Rick Bass
    • Richard Bausch
    • Melanie Rae Thon
    • Stephanie Vaughn
    • John Edgar Wideman
    • Joy Williams
    • Charles Baxter
    • Junot Díaz
    • Alice Munro
    • Alice Walker
    01 read
    Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
    Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
    • David Foster Wallace
    • Paul Theroux
    • Claire Keegan
    • Lewis Robinson
    • Lynda Sexson
    • Daniel Lyons
    • William Trevor
    • Denis Johnson
    • Russell Banks
    • Ethan Canin
    • Andrea Lee
    • Raymond Carver
    21 read
    The Reserve
    The Reserve
    • Russell Banks
    33 reads
    Cover 1

    Beneath the Roses

    Beneath the Roses
      4.52 reads
      Lost Classics
      Lost Classics
        41 read
        Cover 1

        Varieties of Exile

        Varieties of Exile
        • Mavis Gallant
        00 reads
        The Magic Kingdom
        The Magic Kingdom
        • Russell Banks
        00 reads
        Dreaming Up America
        Dreaming Up America
        • Russell Banks
        32 reads
        Hamilton Stark
        Hamilton Stark
        • Russell Banks
        • Arturo Patten
        01 read
        Family Life
        Family Life
        • Russell Banks
        01 read
        Voyager: Travel Writings
        Voyager: Travel Writings
        • Russell Banks
        41 read
        Trailerpark
        Trailerpark
        • Russell Banks
        00 reads
        Cover 4

        A Walk on the Wild Side

        A Walk on the Wild Side
        • Russell Banks
        00 reads
        The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories
        The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories
        • Ama Ata Aidoo
        • Julia Alvarez
        • Martin Amis
        • Margaret Atwood
        • Russell Banks
        • Julian Barnes
        • Ann Beattie
        • T.C. Boyle
        • Peter Carey
        • Angela Carter
        • Vikram A. Chandra
        • Edwidge Danticat
        • Daniele Del Giudice
        • Junot Díaz
        • Nathan Englander
        • Péter Esterházy
        • Richard Ford
        • Peter Høeg
        • Kazuo Ishiguro
        • Bobbie Ann Mason
        • Ian McEwan
        • Lorrie Moore
        • Murathan Mungan
        • Joyce Carol Oates
        • Ben Okri
        • Amos Oz
        • Salman Rushdie
        • Graham Swift
        • Tobias Wolff
        • Can Xue
        31 read
        Lointain souvenir de la peau
        Lointain souvenir de la peau
        • Russell Banks
        • Pierre Furlan (Translator)
        00 reads
        The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks
        The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks
        • Russell Banks
        00 reads
        Cover 4

        Foregone

        Foregone: A Novel
        • Russell Banks
        00 reads
        Cover 3

        Varieties of Exile

        Varieties of Exile
        • Russell Banks
        00 reads
        Cover 3

        Pow Wow

        Pow Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience
        • Ishmael Reed
        • John O. Killens
        • James T. Farrell
        • Minjon LeNoir-Irwin
        • Anna Nelson Harry
        • Grace Paley
        • Gertrude Stein
        • Leon Surmelian
        • Ty Pak
        • Russell Banks
        • Frank Yerby
        • Roberta Hill
        • Mary Tallmountain
        • Nash Candelaria
        • Zora Neale Hurston
        • Gerald Vizenor
        • Robert Coover
        • Edgardo Vega Yunqué
        • Susanne Lee
        • Ray Smith
        • Kristin Hunter
        • Danny Romero
        • Russell C. Leong
        • Cecil Brown
        • Nancy Mercado
        • James Alan McPherson
        • Chester Himes
        • Corie Rosen
        • Bharati Mukherjee
        • Sholeh Wolpé
        • Mitch Berman
        • Victor Sejour
        • Floyd Salas
        • Jimmy Santiago Baca
        • Fielding Dawson
        • Charles Wright
        • Benjamin Franklin
        • Langston Hughes
        • E. Donald Two-Rivers
        • Aphrodite Desiree Navab
        • Ellen Geist
        • George S. Schuyler
        • Stanley Elkin
        • Paul Laurence Dunbar
        • Al Young
        • Wakako Yamauchi
        • Yuri Kageyama
        • Hillel Heinstein
        • Wajahat Ali
        • Walter K. Lew
        • Vivian Demuth
        • Lucha Corpi
        • Robert Hass
        • Paule Marshall
        • John A. Williams
        • Alice Dunbar-Nelson
        • Mark Twain
        • Alejandro Murguía
        • Ntozake Shange
        • Wanda Coleman
        • Carla Blank
        00 reads
        The Angel on the Roof
        The Angel on the Roof
        • Russell Banks
        01 read
        The New World
        The New World
        • Russell Banks
        01 read
        The Relation of my Imprisonment
        The Relation of my Imprisonment
        • Russell Banks
        01 read
        The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015
        The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015
          00 reads
          La terra della magia
          La terra della magia
          • Russell Banks
          • Gianni Pannofino (Translator)
          00 reads
          Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times
          Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times
          • The New York Times
          00 reads
          The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Short Stories Since 1970
          The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Short Stories Since 1970
            00 reads
            Cover 0

            Sweet Hereafter

            Sweet Hereafter
            • Russell Banks
            00 reads
            The World Split Open: Great Authors on How and Why We Write
            The World Split Open: Great Authors on How and Why We Write
            • Margaret Atwood
            • Russell Banks
            • Ursula K. Le Guin
            • Marilynne Robinson
            • Wallace Stegner
            • Robert Stone
            • Jeanette Winterson
            51 read
            Bridge of San Luis Rey
            Bridge of San Luis Rey
            • Thornton Wilder
            • Russell Banks
            00 reads
            Success Stories
            Success Stories
            • Russell Banks
            41 read
            Lost Memory of Skin
            Lost Memory of Skin
            • Russell Banks
            31 read
            La legge di Bone
            La legge di Bone
            • Russell Banks
            • Massimo Birattari (Translator)
            00 reads
            I tradimenti
            I tradimenti
            • Russell Banks
            • Gianni Pannofino (Translator)
            00 reads
            La deriva dei continenti
            La deriva dei continenti
            • Russell Banks
            • Paola Brusasco (Translator)
            00 reads
            Book of Jamaica
            Book of Jamaica
            • Russell Banks
            01 read
            La réserve
            La réserve
            • Russell Banks
            00 reads
            Gegenströmung
            Gegenströmung
            • Russell Banks
            00 reads
            American darling
            American darling
            • Russell Banks
            00 reads
            The Best American Short Stories 1971
            The Best American Short Stories 1971
            • Jack Cady
            • Don Mitchell
            • Marion Montgomery
            • Wright Morris
            • David Madden
            • Philip F. O'Connor
            • Tillie Olsen
            • Ivan Prashker
            • Norman Rush
            • Danny Santiago
            • Jonathan Strong
            • Russell Banks
            • Leonard Tushnet
            • W.D. Valgardson
            • L. Woiwode
            • Hal Bennett
            • James Blake
            • Robert Canzoneri
            • Albert Drake
            • William Eastlake
            • Beth Harvor
            00 reads