Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was one of America’s most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into 20 languages and has received numerous prizes and awards. On January 8, 2023, Banks passed away from cancer at the age of 82.

Books by Russell Banks

Continental Drift

by Russell Banks

Cloudsplitter

by Russell Banks

Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. The novel is dazzling in its re-creation of the political and social landscape of our history during the years before the Civil War.