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Robert Goolrick is a Virginia author.[1] His debut novel was A Reliable Wife, published in 2009.[2]
Education
[edit]He attended Johns Hopkins University.
Biography
[edit]Robert Goolrick grew up in the 1950s in the small college town of Lexington, Virginia. His father was a college professor. His mother was a homemaker and he had two siblings. When Goolrick lost his job as an advertising copywriter, he turned to memoir writing.[3] "The End of the World As We Know It" spotlighted "the excesses and failures of both the social underpinnings of the time and his parents' inevitable alcohol-fueled decline, culminating in a devastating portrayal of the sexual abuse he suffered as a child." In 2015 he moved from Whitestone, Virginia to Weems, Virginia.[4] His first novel sold more than five million copies.[5] His childhood in Virginia.[6] His return to Virginia from New York City.[7] He wrote a memoir and his parents disinherited him, so he moved to New York.[8]
Book Reviews
[edit]The End of the World as We Know It.[9]
Heading Out to Wonderful.[10][11]
The Fall of Princes.[12]
A Reliable Wife.[13] Goolrick cited as an inspiration of this book Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy.
Robert Goolrick listed his six favorite books for children: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss; Canada by Richard Ford; The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn; The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson; and Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "Robert Goolrick - Interview". BookPage.com. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ "Robert Goolrick – Biography and Bibliography - FictionZeal". FictionZeal. 20 July 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ "Robert Goolrick". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ "Robert Goolrick | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ "Robert Goolrick | Bookreporter.com". www.bookreporter.com. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ "Robert Goolrick, author of the best-seller A Reliable Wife, talks about writing as the path to something resembling peace". Nashville Scene. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ "Shelf Awareness for Readers for Friday, June 15, 2012". www.shelf-awareness.com. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ Forest, Epping. "Biography". www.eppingforestantiques.com. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ Maslin, Janet (26 March 2007). "The End of the World as We Know It - Robert Goolrick - Books - Review". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ "Goolrick spins small-town tale in 'Heading Out to Wonderful'". USATODAY.COM. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ Bohjalian, Chris (28 June 2012). "Robert Goolrick's 'Heading Out to Wonderful': Mysterious man brings drama". The Washington Post. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2567#m29394
- ^ Nelson, Sara (24 March 2009). "The Wife Who Came in from the Cold". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ "Robert Goolrick's 6 favorite books about childhood". Retrieved 3 November 2016.
External links
[edit]Category:Writers from Virginia Category:Novelists from Virginia