Thomas Flanagan (writer)
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Thomas Bonner Flanagan (November 5, 1923 – March 21, 2002)[1] was an American university professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a novelist.
Biography
Flanagan was born in 1923 in Greenwich, Connecticut,[2] to a homemaker mother and a dentist father. All of his grandparents had come to the United States from County Fermanagh, Ireland. He served in the United States Army during World War II. He graduated from Amherst College in 1945. He received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Columbia University. From 1960 to 1978 he was Professor of English Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in Irish literature. He was a tenured Full Professor in the English Department at the Stony Brook University until his retirement.
Flanagan was also a successful novelist. His first novel, The Year of the French, won the National Book Critics Award for fiction in 1979 and was adapted into a TV series, which was broadcast in Ireland in 1982.[3]
Personal life
In 1949, he married Jane Parker, a nurse; they had two children, writer Caitlin Flanagan and Ellen Flanagan Klavan.[1] His son-in-law is writer Andrew Klavan.[4][5] He and his wife spent much of their time in Ireland. They lived in East Setauket, Long Island.
He died of a heart attack on March 21, 2002, at the age of 78 in Berkeley.[1]
Works
Historical novels
- The Year of the French (1979); Template:ISBN (2004)
- The Tenants of Time (1988)
- The End of the Hunt (1995)
Non-fiction work
- The Irish Novelists 1800–1850 (1958)
Legacy
The Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College holds his papers.
References
Sources
External links
- Thomas A. Flanagan (AC 1945) Papers at the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections
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- 1923 births
- 2002 deaths
- 20th-century American novelists
- Columbia University alumni
- Amherst College alumni
- Writers from Greenwich, Connecticut
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- Writers from California
- American historical novelists
- American male novelists
- American people of Irish descent
- 20th-century American male writers
- Novelists from Connecticut
- American atheists
- United States Army personnel of World War II
- National Book Critics Circle Award winners