He studied creative writing at Columbia University in New York and Stanford University in California. After the end of World War II, he graduated from the University of Kansas in 1947, with a B.A. He started undergraduate work at Dartmouth College but joined the Navy in 1943 and became a pilot. He graduated from Southwest High School in Kansas City in 1941. Matthew Zimmermann) to whom he dedicated his novel Mrs. (1890–1974), a physician, and Ruth Elton Connell. On April 23, 2010, he was awarded a Los Angeles Times Book Prize: the Robert Kirsch Award, for "a living author with a substantial connection to the American West, whose contribution to American letters deserves special recognition."Ĭonnell was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the only son of Evan S. In 2009, Connell was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize, for lifetime achievement. His writing covered a variety of genres, although he published most frequently in fiction.
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