Russell Hoban

Alida Allison (San Diego State University); Yvonne Studer (Independent Scholar - North America)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 4 Feb 1925
Died 13 Dec 2011
Activity 1945-2013

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States; England

Activities

Primary

Children's/Young Adult writer
Novelist

Resources

Hoban's Works

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Born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania on 4 February 1925 to Ukranian immigrants Abram T. and Jeanette Dimmerman Hoban, Russell Hoban grew up the youngest of three children in a cultured, socially-committed household. His father, the Philadelphia advertising manager for the

Jewish Daily Forward,

directed amateur productions of Russian and Yiddish plays and protest theatre. Perched in trees on his parents' land, Hoban read prodigiously. In the essays “I, that was a child, my tongue's use sleeping…” and “With a Choked Cry”, published in

The Moment Under the Moment

(1992) and republished in 1999 in

The Russell Hoban Omnibus

, and in “Wilde Pomegranates”, Hoban writes about his early years and the life-long influence that his immersion in books had upon him. He drew extremely well as a…

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Citation: Allison, Alida, Yvonne Studer. "Russell Hoban". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 July 2005; last revised 28 June 2022. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2152, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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