Theroux, Alexander.

History is Made at Night. And other Poems.

First Edition. West Chester, Aralia Press, 1992. 14 x 24 cm. Unpaginated. Approximately 30 pages. Original cloth. In protective Mylar. Very good+ condition. Signed by the author on the title page. One of only 150 copies printed. Minimal signs of wear on the cover.

Alexander Louis Theroux (born 1939) is an American novelist and poet. He is known for his novel Darconville’s Cat (1981), which was selected by Anthony Burgess for his book-length essay Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 – A Personal Choice in 1984 and by Larry McCaffery for his 20th Century’s Greatest Hits list.

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 and writer/translator Peter Theroux as well as the uncle of documentarian Louis Theroux, novelist Marcel Theroux, and actor Justin Theroux.

Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts, the first son of Catholic parents; his mother, Anne (born Dittami), was Italian American, and his father, Albert Eugene Theroux, was French Canadian. His mother was a grammar school teacher and his father was a salesman for the American Leather Oak company. Theroux graduated from Medford High School; he attended Boys State in Amherst, Massachusetts, was class president in 1956, and was a starting member of the Medford High School basketball team.

He entered the Trappist Monastery at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts in 1958, and then the Franciscan Seminary at Callicoon, New York in 1960. He earned his Bachelor of Arts at St. Francis College in 1964. He earned a masters of arts in English literature in 1965, and his doctorate in English literature, 1968 at the University of Virginia, where he won the Schubert Playwrighting Fellowship in 1967. He belonged to both the Raven Society and the Society of the Purple Shadows.

He spent a year on a Fulbright Grant in London in 1969. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1974. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Catalogue No.10 – International Literature · Poetry · Poetry – Rare · Signed Books
• Language: English
• Dust Jacket
• Signed/inscribed
• First edition
• Inventory Number: 32139AB

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