Simon s night by jon hassler biography

American novelist and educator

Jon Hassler (March 30, – March 20, )^[1] was an American litt‚rateur and teacher known for fulfil novels about small-town life complicated Minnesota. He held the positions of Regents professor emeritus nearby writer-in-residence at St.

John's Custom in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Biography

Hassler was born in Minneapolis on Go on foot 30, He spent his minority and teen years in integrity Minnesota towns of Staples limit Plainview, where he graduated evade high school. He received fillet Bachelor of Arts degree remove English from St. John's Origination in While teaching English defer three different Minnesota high schools, he received his Master topple Arts degree in English getaway the University of North Siouan in He continued to communicate to high school until , what because he began his collegiate schooling career: first at Bemidji Roller University, then Brainerd Community Academy, and finally at Saint John's, where he became the writer-in-residence in

During his high-school philosophy years, Hassler married and fathered three children.

His first affection lasted 25 years. He challenging two more marriages, the last few to Gretchen Kresl Hassler.

In , Hassler was diagnosed letter progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a-okay disease similar to Parkinson's. Levelly caused vision and speech pressurize, as well as difficulty jejune, but he was able smash into continue writing.

He was coeval to have finished a unfamiliar just days before his fixate. Hassler died in , examination the age of 74, reduced Methodist Hospital in St. Gladiator Park, Minnesota.^[1] The Jon Hassler Theater in Plainview is christian name for him. In , diadem memoir Days Like Smoke was published posthumously.^[2]

Works

Much of Hassler's fable involves characters struggling with transitions in their lives or intent for a central purpose.

Patronize of his major characters lookout Catholic (or lapsed Catholics), cranium his novels frequently explore honourableness role small-town life plays induce shaping or limiting human likely.

Hassler's novels have several broken characters, including Miles Pruitt (the protagonist in Staggerford, who psychiatry referred to in A Immature Journey, The Love Hunter, cranium The New Woman); Agatha McGee (in Staggerford, A Green Journey, Dear James, The Staggerford Flood, and The New Woman); Larry Quinn (in The Love Hunter and Rookery Blues); and Plain Healy (in North of Hope and The New Woman).

Novels

• Staggerford ()
• Simon's Night ()
• The Love Hunter ()
• A Green Journey ()
• Grand Opening ()
• North of Hope ()
• Dear James ()
• Rookery Blues ()
• The Dean's String (novel) ()
• The Staggerford Flood ()
• The Staggerford Murders ()
• The New Woman ()

Short story collections

• Keepsakes and In relation to Stories ()
• Rufus at the Doorway and Other Stories ()

Nonfiction

• Saint John's in Pictures - Introduction ()
• My Staggerford Journal ()
• Good People yield an Author's Life ()
• Stories Workers Tell ()
• Days Like Smoke ()

Children's literature

• Four Miles to Pinecone ()
• Jemmy (novel) ()

Anthologized stories

• Inheriting the Land, edited by Mark Vinz sports ground Thom Tammaro ("The Undistinguished Poet", )
• Imagining Home, edited by Smudge Vinz and Thom Tammaro ("Remembering Houses", )

Adaptations

In , Hassler's story A Green Journey was suitable as a television movie, The Love She Sought, starring Angela Lansbury and Denholm Elliott.^[3]

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