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Markson, David M. was born on December 20, 1927 in Albany, New York, United States. Son of Samuel Albert and Florence (Stone) Markson.
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Epitaph for a Tramp
(Fannin's murdered ex-wife was a bum and a drug user, but ...)
Fannin's murdered ex-wife was a bum and a drug user, but the tough detective took the case for old times' sake.
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The Ballad of Dingus Magee
( Although best known today for his singular, stunning a...)
Although best known today for his singular, stunning anti-novels” dazzlingly conjured from anecdotes, quotes, and small thoughts, in his early days David Markson paid the rent by writing punchy, highly dramatic fictions. On the heels of a new double edition of his steamy noirs Epitaph for a Tramp and Epitaph for a Deadbeat comes a new edition of his 1965 classic The Ballad of Dingus Magee, whose subtitle Immortal True Saga of the Most Notorious and Desperate Bad Man of the Olden Days, his Blood-Shedding, his Ruination of Poor Helpless Females, & Cetera” gives readers a hint of the raucous sensibility at work here. Brimming with blasphemy, bullets, and bordellos, this hilarious tale, which inspired the Frank Sinatra movie Dirty Dingus McGee, shows the early Markson at his outrageous best, taking down, as Playboy put it, the breeches of the Old West and blasting what's exposed with buckshot.”
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By David Markson - This is Not a Novel (1/30/01)
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Epitaph for a Tramp and Epitaph for a Dead Beat: The Harry Fannin Detective Novels by Markson, David (2006) Paperback
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The Ballad of Dingus Magee THE BALLAD OF DINGUS MAGEE By Markson, David ( Author )Jun-01-2008 Paperback
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The Ballad of Dingus Magee by Markson, David (2008) Paperback
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Vanishing Point: A Novel
( In the literary world, there is little that can match t...)
In the literary world, there is little that can match the excitement of opening a new book by David Markson. From Wittgenstein’s Mistress to Reader’s Block to Springer’s Progress to This Is Not a Novel, he has delighted and amazed readers for decades. And now comes his latest masterwork, Vanishing Point, wherein an elderly writer (identified only as "Author") sets out to transform shoeboxes crammed with notecards into a noveland in so doing will dazzle us with an astonishing parade of revelations about the trials and calamities and absurdities and often even tragedies of the creative lifeand all the while trying his best (he says) to keep himself out of the tale. Naturally he will fail to do the latter, frequently managing to stand aside and yet remaining undeniably central throughoutuntil he is swept inevitably into the narrative’s starting and shattering climax. A novel of death and laughter bothand of extraordinary intellectual richness.
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EPITAPH FOR A TRAMP & EPITAPH FOR A DEAD BEAT: THE HARRY FANNIN DETECTIVE NOVELS (HARRY FANNIN MYSTERIES) EPITAPH FOR A TRAMP & EPITAPH FOR A DEAD BEAT: THE HARRY FANNIN DETECTIVE NOVELS (HARRY FANNIN MYSTERIES) BY MARKSON, DAVID ( AUTHOR )JAN-01-20
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This Is Not a Novel
( This Is Not a Novel is a highly inventive work which dr...)
This Is Not a Novel is a highly inventive work which drifts "genre-less," somewhere in between fiction, nonfiction, and psychological memoir. In the opening pages of the "novel," a narrator, called only "Writer," announces that he is tired of inventing characters, contemplating plot, setting, theme, and conflict. Yet the writer is determined to seduce the reader into turning pages-and to "get somewhere," nonetheless. What follows are pages crammed with short lines of astonishingly fascinating literary and artistic anecdotes, quotations, and cultural curiosities. This Is Not a Novel is leavened with Markson's deliciously ironic wit and laughter, so that when the writer does indeed finally get us "somewhere" it's the journey will have mattered as much as the arrival.
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Epitaph For A Dead Beat
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Going Down: A Novel
( Unlike David Markson’s most recent works, including Van...)
Unlike David Markson’s most recent works, including Vanishing Point and Wittgenstein’s Mistress, which David Foster Wallace described as "pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country," his early novel, Going Down, is a more traditional effort, a masterfully plotted narrative set in Mexico in the 1960s. Three Americans, a man and two women, are living together in obvious intimacy. Their habits, strange to the Mexicans, are strangest of all to themselves. When Fern Winters’ attention is caught by movement behind a window in a run-down Greenwich Village apartment building, she can’t suspect that her encounter with the apartment’s occupant will eventually lead her to be come upon in an abandoned chapel, in a tiny mountain villageclutching the bloody machete with which one of the three has been murdered. Going Down is a rarity among novelsbrilliantly and poetically written, faultlessly constructed, centered on fully realized people, and yet completely uninhibited in its depiction of startling eroticism.
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Epitaph for a Tramp and Epitaph for a Dead Beat: The Harry Fannin Detective Novels
( Before achieving critical acclaim as a novelist, David ...)
Before achieving critical acclaim as a novelist, David Markson paid the rent by writing several crime novels, including two featuring the private detective Harry Fannin. Together here in one volume, these works are now available to a new generation of readers. In Epitaph for a Tramp, Fannin isn't called out to investigate a murder — it happens on his doorstop. In the sweltering heat of a New York August night, he answers the buzzer at his door to find his promiscuous ex-wife dying from a knife wound. To find her killer, Fannin plies his trade with classic hard-boiled aplomb. In the second novel, Epitaph for a Dead Beat, Fannin finds himself knee-deep in murder among the beatniks and bohemians of the early 1960s, where blood seems to flow as readily as cheap Chianti. Intricately plotted and rife with wisecracks, David Markson offers suspenseful and literary crime novels.
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David M. Markson
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David M. Markson, American writer. Recipient fellowship Centro Mexicano De Escritores, 1960-1961, National Endowment for Arts, 1990, New York Foundation for Arts, 2000, Academy award in literature American Academy Arts and Letters., 2007. Staff sergeant United States Army, 1946-1948. Member Louis Norman Newsom Society (commissioner 1973-1991).
Education
Bachelor, Union College, Schenectady, New York, 1950. Master of Arts, Columbia University, New York City, 1952.
Career
Reporter Albany Times-Union, New York City, 1944-1945, 48-49. Editor Dell Books, 1953-1954, Lion Books, New York City, 1955-1957. Instructor Long Island University, Brooklyn, 1964-1966.
Lecturer Columbia University, New York City, 1979-1984, 86-87, New School for Social Research, New York City, 1994, 97-99.
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Going Down: A Novel
( Unlike David Markson’s most recent works, including Van...)
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The Ballad of Dingus Magee
( Although best known today for his singular, stunning a...)
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Epitaph for a Tramp and Epitaph for a Dead Beat: The Harry Fannin Detective Novels
( Before achieving critical acclaim as a novelist, David ...)
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This Is Not a Novel
( This Is Not a Novel is a highly inventive work which dr...)
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Epitaph for a Tramp
(Fannin's murdered ex-wife was a bum and a drug user, but ...)
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Vanishing Point: A Novel
( In the literary world, there is little that can match t...)
- Fannin (Epitaph for a Tramp)
- By David Markson - This is Not a Novel (1/30/01)
- Epitaph for a Tramp and Epitaph for a Dead Beat: The Harry Fannin Detective Novels by Markson, David (2006) Paperback
- The Ballad of Dingus Magee THE BALLAD OF DINGUS MAGEE By Markson, David ( Author )Jun-01-2008 Paperback
- The Ballad of Dingus Magee by Markson, David (2008) Paperback
- EPITAPH FOR A TRAMP & EPITAPH FOR A DEAD BEAT: THE HARRY FANNIN DETECTIVE NOVELS (HARRY FANNIN MYSTERIES) EPITAPH FOR A TRAMP & EPITAPH FOR A DEAD BEAT: THE HARRY FANNIN DETECTIVE NOVELS (HARRY FANNIN MYSTERIES) BY MARKSON, DAVID ( AUTHOR )JAN-01-20
- Epitaph For A Dead Beat
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Going Down: A Novel
Membership
Staff sergeant United States Army, 1946-1948. Member Louis Norman Newsom Society (commissioner 1973-1991).
Interests
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Married Elaine Kretchmar, September 30, 1966 (divorced May 26, 1994). Children: Johanna, Jed.
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Democrat
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1950
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1952
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1944 - 1945
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1953 - 1954
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1955 - 1957
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1964 - 1966
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1979 - 1984
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1994
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Recipient fellowship Centro Mexicano De Escritores, 1960-1961, National Endowment for Arts, 1990, New York Foundation for Arts, 2000, Academy award in literature American Academy Arts and Letters., 2007.Recipient fellowship Centro Mexicano De Escritores, 1960-1961, National Endowment for Arts, 1990, New York Foundation for Arts, 2000, Academy award in literature American Academy Arts and Letters., 2007.