Alexander Louis Theroux was born on 1939 and is an American novelist and poet.
14 Facts About Alexander Theroux
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Alexander Theroux 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.
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Alexander 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.
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Alexander Theroux 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.
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Alexander Theroux earned his Bachelor of Arts at St Francis College in 1964.
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Alexander Theroux 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.
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Alexander Theroux belonged to both the Raven Society and the Society of the Purple Shadows.
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Alexander Theroux spent a year on a Fulbright Grant in London in 1969.
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Alexander Theroux taught at the University of Virginia in 1968 and at Harvard University as Brigg-Copeland Lecturer from 1973 to 1979.
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Alexander Theroux was writer-in-residence at Phillips Academy in Andover from 1979 to 1982.
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Alexander Theroux taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1982 to 1987 and at Yale University from 1987 to 1991.
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Alexander Theroux published the fable Master Snickup's Cloak, which was illustrated by Brian Froud, in 1979.
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Alexander Theroux attributed the matter to "stupidity and bad note taking," noting that he had read hundreds of books for The Primary Colors.
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Alexander Theroux's editor said that future editions would credit Murchie's work, or remove the passages.