December 29, 1922 - December 16, 1998
American novelist and essayist
Author of "J. R." (for which he won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1976), "A Frolic of His Own" (for which he won the National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1994) and "The Recognitions" (for which he was named one of Time magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 - 2005)