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Also Known As	Robert Lowell Coover
Born	February 4, 1932 • Charles City • Iowa
Died	October 5, 2024 (aged 92) • Warwick • England
Notable Works	“A Child Again ” • “Huck Out West” • “Pricksongs & Descants” • “The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Director’s Cut ” • “The Brunist Day of Wrath” • “The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell)” • “The Origin of the Brunistsm” • “The Public Burning” • “The Universal Baseball Association, Inc” • “Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears?”

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