Experimental author Robert Coover has died at age 92.
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"Robert Coover writes from life, but not the one he has lived out in the world," author Ben Marcus once wrote of him."He writes from his life as a reader of narratives. His personal experience, which he draws on for his work, is the experience he has had inside of texts. He did not grow up in Iowa, but in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses.' He did not suffer first love in the mid-west of America, but inside the Greek myths, or Aesop's fables, or 'The Decameron.
Coover's most controversial work was the 1977 novel"The Public Burning," a warp-speed satire of the 1953 executions of convicted communist spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg that publishers hesitated to take on for fear of legal action by Richard Nixon, Roy Cohn and other then still-living historical figures who appear in the book.
For Coover, anything seemed possible. He was an early believer that the written word could be integrated with music and film and digital technology and championed what he called"Cave Writing," which included placing students in a virtual reality simulator. Before e-books were widely available, he helped found"electronic literature," storytelling designed specifically for digital devices.
Coover is survived by Pilar Sans Coover, the tapestry artist he married in 1959, along with the couple’s three children: Caldwell, Roderick Coover and Diana Hancox, who lived near their parents’ care home in England. Caldwell said he had seven grandchildren, three great-granddaughters, and a great-grandson due this month who is set to be named after him.
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