biography
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Powers, J(ames) F(arl)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1917– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Jacksonville, Illinois, USA. A socially concerned Catholic, he was jailed during World War 2 for resisting induction on pacifist grounds, and he was also stirred by injustices against blacks. His major interest in fiction became the realistic, often wryly ironic depiction of priests' lives and conflicts, as in his prize-winning novel Morte d'Urban (1962) and in Wheat that Springeth Green (1988). He lived at intervals in Ireland, but mostly in Minnesota, where he taught at St John's College. |
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