Background
Corrington, John William was born on October 28, 1932 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of John Wesley and Viva Lillian (Shelley) Corrington.
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In this second of the New Orleans Mystery novels, NOPD Captain of Homicide “Rat” Trapp reencounters Camille Bynum, an old love Rat grew up with in the god-forsaken Desire project. Camille left Desire for Los Angeles twenty years ago but returns to New Orleans with her rock star son Danny, who comes to town for a performance at the Superdome. When Danny collapses on stage, Rat has to decide if Danny accidentally overdosed or is a murder victim. His friends, reporter Wes Colvin and assistant DA Denise Lemoyne, offer Rat backup as his investigation leads to nonstop violent action against the vicious drug dealers who infest Desire project.
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Wes Colvin, a New Orleans reporter, receives an anonymous phone call from a man who wants to tell him a story. But when Wes goes to meet his contact at a French Quarter bar, he finds the place a bloody shambles and all its inhabitants machine-gunned to death just moments before. With the help of his friend "Rat" Trapp, NOPD Captain of Homicide, Wes investigates the motive for the slaughter. Among the suspects is an Uptown beauty, Denise Lemoyne, the granddaughter of one of the victims: Auguste Lemoyne, a former Louisianian politician. If he can survive, Wes will uncover the story of a lifetime: the truth behind the assassination of former governor and senator Huey Long.
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The past isn't dead. It isn't even the past," William Faulker wrote.The Southern Reporter constitutes a report on the collisions between a present that cannot find its voice and a past that reaches out incessantly into the lives of contemporary men and women. An old Louisiana lawyer finds himself in California seeking a missing heir who is a physicist, musician, doctor, theologian-and a leader of a crazed and murderous santanistic cult. A childless retired couple prepares treats for Halloween's children-only to find that the "children" have taken on the character of their terrifying costumes. An elderly lawyer, dying of cancer, is forced to recall an even greater pain and finds his own kind of salvation in the remembrance of love. A court reporter, who has spent his life recording the crimes and affairs of others, at last cannot stand the flood of evil and visits his own justice on a man the jury has found innocent of rape. A young boy is caught between his high-spirited, hell-raising uncle and the deadly civilizing force of his mother. The Southern Reporter penetrates the façade of contemporary life, looking for its roots in the past -- not simply the past of its people but the looming imaginary structure of western history, against which all of us lead our lives -- and die our deaths. The search for images of order and the loss of them constitute the meaning of The Southern Reporter.
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Corrington, John William was born on October 28, 1932 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of John Wesley and Viva Lillian (Shelley) Corrington.
Corrington graduated from Tulane University Law School in 1975, joined a small New Orleans personal injury law firm, Plotkin and Bradley, and spent the next three years practicing law.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Centenary College, in 1956 and his Master of Arts from Rice University in 1960, the year he took on his first teaching position in the English Department at Louisiana State University. While on leave from Louisiana State University, Corrington obtained his Doctorate.Phil. in 1965, from the University of Sussex and then moved to Loyola University New Orleans in 1966, as an Associate Professor of English, where he also served as chair of the English Department. During this time Corrington published four books of poetry, Where We Are (1962), The Anatomy of Love (1964), Mr.
Clean (1964) and Lincolnshire to the South (1965).
With Miller Williams, Corrington edited Southern Writing in the Sixties: Fiction (1966) and Southern Writing in the Sixties: Poetry (1967). Corrington also published four books of short stories, The Lonesome Traveler (1968), The Actes and Monuments (1978), The Southern Reporter (1981) and All My Trials (1987) and four novels, And Wait for the Night (1964), The Upper Hand (1967), The Bombardier (1970) and Shad Sentell (1984).
The Corringtons scripted Search for Tomorrow (1978-1980), Another World (1980), Texas (1980-1981), General Hospital (1982. Hired by Gloria Monty), Capitol (1982-1983, hired by John Conboy) and One Life to Live (1984).
They also wrote and produced Superior Court, a syndicated series (1986-1989).
During this time, the Corringtons also published So Small a Carnival (1986), A Project Named Desire (1987), A Civil Death (1987) and The White Zone (1990). The Collected Stories of John William Corrington was published in 1990, by the University of Missouri Press. Centenary College inaugurated an award in his name in 1991.
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Member Louisiana Bar Association.
Married Joyce Elaine Hooper, February 6, 1960. Children: Shelley Elaine, John Wesley, Robert Edward Lee, Thomas Jonathan Jackson.