Robert Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. Jump to: navigation, search February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Jump to: navigation, search Brown University is an Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Jump to: navigation, search In literary criticism, the term fabulation was popularized by Robert Scholes to describe the large and growing class of mostly 20th century novels in a style similar to magical realism, which do not fit into the traditional categories of either realism or of (novelistic) romance. ... Metafiction is a kind of fiction which self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction. ...

Coover was born in Charles City, Iowa. He received his B.A. in Slavic Studies from Indiana University in 1955, then served in the United States Navy. He received an M.A. in General Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago in 1965. Coover has served as a teacher or writer in residence at many universities. Charles City is a city located in Floyd County, Iowa. ... State nickname: The Hawkeye State Other U.S. States Capital Des Moines Largest city Des Moines Governor Thomas Vilsack (D) Senators Chuck Grassley (R) Tom Harkin (D) Official languages English Area 145,743 km² (26th)  - Land 144,701 km²  - Water 1,042 km² (0. ... Jump to: navigation, search Indiana University Bloomington is the principal campus of the Indiana University system. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ...

Coover's first novel was The Origin of the Brunists, in which the sole survivor of a mine disaster starts a religious cult. His second book, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., deals with the role of the creator. The eponymous Waugh, a shy, lonely accountant, creates a baseball game in which rolls of the dice determine every play, and dreams up players to attach those results to.

Coover's best-known work, The Public Burning deals with the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in terms that have been called magic realism. Half of the book is devoted to the mythic hero Uncle Sam of tall tales, dealing with the equally fantastic Shadow who represents International Communism. The alternate chapters portray the efforts of Richard Nixon (in a surprisingly human and sympathetic portrayal) to find what is really going on amidst the welter of narratives. The Public Burning is a 1977 novel by Robert Coover. ... The Rosenbergs Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (1915-1953) and Julius Rosenberg (1918-1953) were American Communists who captured and maintained world attention after being tried, convicted, and executed for spying for the Soviet Union. ... Jump to: navigation, search Magic realism (or magical realism) is a literary genre in which magical elements appear in an otherwise realistic setting. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Lake George, New York Uncle Sam statue is the tallest in the world. ... Jump to: navigation, search Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the thirty-seventh President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ...

A later novella, Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears offers an alternate Nixon, one who devoted to football and sex the same doggedness with which he pursued political success in this reality. The theme anthology A Night at the Movies includes the story "You Must Remember This", a bit of fanfic about Casablanca that features an XXX description of what Rick and Ilsa did when the camera wasn't on them. Pinocchio in Venice returns to mythical themes. Fan fiction (also spelled fanfiction and commonly abbreviated to fanfic) is fiction written by people who enjoy a film, novel, television show or other media work, using the characters and situations developed in it and developing new plots in which to use these characters. ... Casablanca is a 1942 movie set during World War II in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca. ...

Selected Works

• A Child Again (2005)
• Stepmother (2004)
• The Adventures of Lucky Pierre (Director's Cut) (2002)
• Ghost Town (1998)
• John's Wife (1996)
• Briar Rose (1996)
• Pinocchio in Venice (1991)
• Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears (1987)
• A Night at the Movies (1987)
• Gerald's Party (1986)
• In Bed One Night & Other Brief Encounters (1983) (short fiction)
• Spanking the Maid (1982)
• A Political Fable (1980)
• The Public Burning (1977)
• A Theological Position (1972) (plays)
• Pricksongs & Descants (1969) (short fiction)
• The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968)
• The Origin of the Brunists (1966)

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External links

• Literary Encylopedia (in-progress)
• Brown Faculty Website
• Interview
• IMDB