Thomas Sanchez (writer)
Appearance
Thomas Sanchez (born 1943) is an American novelist.
Life
Thomas Brown Sanchez was born at the Oakland Naval Hospital in Oakland, California three months after his father was killed in the South Pacific during World War II.
His first novel, Rabbit Boss, was named one of the 100 Greatest Western novels by the San Francisco Chronicle.[1] Sanchez is published by Knopf/Vintage at Random House.[2]
Works
Novels
- Rabbit Boss (1973)
- Zoot-Suit Murders (1978)
- Mile Zero (1989)
- Day of the Bees (2000)
- King Bongo (2003)
- American Tropic (2013)
Honors
He was the recipient of a 1980 Guggenheim Fellowship [3] and the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French Republic.
References
- ^ "The Best in the West / TOP 100 FICTION - SFGate". San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco: Hearst. November 21, 1999. ISSN 1932-8672. Retrieved October 12, 2012.
- ^ "Thomas Sanchez - Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-06-03. Retrieved 2012-10-14.
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Categories:
- 1943 births
- Living people
- People from the San Francisco Bay Area
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- American mystery writers
- Western (genre) writers
- Writers from California
- Novelists from Florida
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- American novelist, 1940s birth stubs