biography
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McGuane, Thomas (Francis III)
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| lived:
| (1939– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Wyandotte, Michigan, USA. He studied at the University of Michigan, Olivet College, Michigan State (1962 BA), Yale (1965 MFA), and Stanford (1966–7). He began his writing career as a flamboyant satirist, as seen in The Bushwacked Piano (1971). After a serious car accident (1972), he worked as a scriptwriter in Hollywood and directed the screen adaptation of his novel, Ninety-two in the Shade (1973). He wrote about his newly hedonistic lifestyle in Panama (1977), and married for the third time in the same year. He settled down on a ranch in McLeod, MT and continued to write. |
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