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NEW: Translation of Polish interview c1996:
http://www.robotwisdom.com/jorn/wwiview.html
1925: born Albert W. DuAime, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [Polish source], [English source]
1940s: served in WW2 in US Army Specialized Training
Program for soldiers with genius IQs; 87th Division
194? treated in an Army psychiatric hospital
Trained as a painter at the University of California, Los Angeles
195?: PhD? [cite]
1950s to mid-70s: worked as a painter
???1950s: RAND Corp and IBM, if "Last Lovers" is to be believed
1959: decamped to France, to paint, lives on houseboat
c1990: daughter Kate and her family die in awful traffic disaster in Oregon
Publishing first in Polish!? [source]
Uses Lodz Airport [boast]
Rumored to be JD Salinger
Essay w/some bio
This discounter has almost all these titles for a dollar or three each: http://www.edwardrhamilton.com/
National Book Award for best first novel (1980) [qv]
Inspired REM's King of Birds song [FAQ] [no samples]
Movie: IMDb page, review, ditto; classroom questions; backgrounder on Peter Gabriel score (and review and RealAudio samples)
Theatrical version, ditto, adapted by Naomi Wallace, review, blurb
My personal favorite, about his (?) father's sudden descent into senility.
Movie: IMDb page, fanpage, Ebert review, review, review
Fictionalised WW2 memoir.
Movie: IMDb page, informative fanpage, Ebert review, reader reviews, review, review
The title refers to painting.
About a circus (in the 1930s in the Philly area maybe?)
This one fictionalizes his 'dropping out' to paint in Paris, in a context that may or may not be true, involving great success at RAND and IBM, starting in computer graphics and moving into early missile defense projects.
c1990: daughter Kate and her family die in awful traffic disaster in Oregon
I read part of this in Granta, it's very moving. They were driving thru heavy smoke from land being cleared, and WW has been fighting to get the laws changed so it won't happen again.
"How the author bought a crippled hulk & created a wonderful houseboat on the Seine in Paris." [source]
Polish, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto
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