Author Donald Newlove Died at age 93

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Novelist Donald Newlove died on August 17. He was 93.

The author of Erie, who is from Pa. Has worked as a reporter and book reviewer, and her writing, along with short stories, has appeared in outlets such as Esquire, Evergreen Review, New York magazine, The Saturday Review, and The Village Voice. His book -length works include The Painter Gabriel (1970), Sweet Adversity (1978), the memoir That Drinking Days: Myelf and Other Writers (1981), and a series of books on the art of writing.

Until recently, Newlove’s books were out of print for many years despite good reviews. Time called The Painter Gabriel “one of the best fictional studies of madness, origin, and purification written by any American since Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” The New York Times called Sweet Adversity “one of the most desperate comic books given to us in a long time.” In recent years, a number of Newlove titles have been re -released by Arlington, Mass. – based publisher Tough Poets Press.

“In my opinion, Sweet Adversity holds up as one of the greatest – and funniest books Americans have ever written,” said Rick Schober, publisher of Newlove at Tough Poets. “It’s really embarrassing that Newlove didn’t get the level of recognition that some of his contemporaries like Kurt Vonnegut or Joseph Heller did because, based on that single novel alone, he really deserves it.”

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