Alexander Theroux
Alexander Louis Theroux (born 1939) is an American novelist and poet whose best known novel is perhaps Darconville’s Cat (1982) which was selected by Anthony Burgess’s Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939—A Personal Choice in 1984 and in Larry McCaffery’s 20th Century’s Greatest Hits He was awarded the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1991 and the Clifton Fadiman Medal for Fiction in 2002 by the Mercantile Library in New York City. He is the brother of novelist Paul Theroux.
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Famous quotes by alexander theroux:
“Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)
“Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)