14 Facts About Ronald Sukenick

1.

Ronald Sukenick was an American writer and literary theorist.

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2.

Ronald Sukenick graduated from Midwood High School and Cornell University before receiving his Ph.

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3.

Ronald Sukenick drew up a list of what is missing: reality doesn't exist, nor time or personality.

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4.

Ronald Sukenick was widely recognized as a controversial writer who, frequently humorously, questioned and rejected the conventions of traditional fiction-writing.

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5.

Ronald Sukenick did stints as writer in residence at Cornell, the University of California, Irvine and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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6.

Ronald Sukenick referred to his career as a university professor as his "day job".

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7.

Ronald Sukenick's most prolonged teaching stint was at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he was a professor of English from 1975 to 1999.

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8.

Ronald Sukenick was actively committed to publishing and promoting the writing of other unconventional writers.

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9.

Ronald Sukenick was founder and publisher of the American Book Review and a founder of The Fiction Collective.

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10.

Ronald Sukenick was chairman of the Coordinating Council of Little magazines, and on the executive council of the Modern Language Association and the National Book Critics Circle.

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11.

Ronald Sukenick lived with Julia Frey for many years, and they were formally married in 1992.

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12.

Ronald Sukenick's book on Toulouse-Lautrec is a standard work.

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13.

Ronald Sukenick collaborated on Sukenick's posthumously published story "For the Invisible, Against Thinking" set in Bali.

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14.

Ronald Sukenick died from the muscular disease inclusion body myositis, in 2004.

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