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Thomas McGuane
American author
Also known as: Thomas Francis McGuane, III
Quick Facts
- In full:
- Thomas Francis McGuane III
- Notable Works:
- “An Outside Chance”
- “Cloudbursts”
- “Crow Fair”
- “Driving on the Rim”
- “Gallatin Canyon”
- “Keep the Change”
- “Ninety-two in the Shade”
- “Nobody’s Angel”
- “Nothing but Blue Skies”
- “Panama”
- “Some Horses”
- “Something to Be Desired”
- “The Bushwhacked Piano”
- “The Cadence of Grass”
- “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”
- “The Sporting Club”
- “To Skin a Cat”
Thomas McGuane (born December 11, 1939, Wyandotte, Michigan, U.S.) is an American author noted for his picaresque novels of violent action set amid rural landscapes. McGuane attended the University of Michigan, Olivet (Michigan) College, Michigan State University (B.A., 1962), Yale University (M.F.A., 1965), and Stanford University. McGuane’s first three novels—The Sporting Club (1969), The Bushwhacked Piano (1971), and Ninety-two in the Shade (1973)—present the central plot and theme of his early fiction: a man, usually from a secure family, exiles himself from American society (which he despises for its materialism and triviality), removes himself to an isolated locale, and then ...(100 of 301 words)