Charles Palliser books catalogue

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Charles Palliser is an American writer who has lived in Great Britain since he was three years old. More

Charles Palliser is an American writer who has lived in Great Britain since he was three years old. He studied English at Oxford University. From 1974 to 1990 he was a lecturer in the English Department of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. In the 1970s and 1980s, he taught literature courses at Rutgers University in New Jersey. During this period he worked on his debut: The Quincunx . When the book was published in 1989, it was a huge success. The book, which is very close to Charles Dickens in terms of atmosphere and writing style, received good reviews. It was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction 1991 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters as best debut novel. Palliser gave up his university job and became a full-time writer.

His second book, The Sensationist , was published in 1991, which received less critical acclaim. Betrayals (1993) and The Unburied (Wandering Ghosts, 1999) hit the bull's eye again. More than ten years after The Unburied , Palliser's next book, Rustication (2013), was published, like The Unburied , a Victorian murder story.

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Full name

Charles Palliser

Born

Boston, US, 11 december 1947

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De Quincunx (1990)