well reviewed, The Patriot contains some rewarding social satire and impressive scenes of aviation. Connell's 1984 sweeping account of George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Son of the Morning Star, earned critical acclaim, was a bestseller, and was adapted as a television film/miniseries in 1991. The film won four Emmy Awards. Dorothy Parker described Connell as "a writer of fine style and amazing variety". Legacy and honors 1959, Mrs. Bridge was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction. 1974, Points for a Compass Rose was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry. 2009, he was nominated for the third Man Booker International Prize, for lifetime achievement. 2010, he received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: the Robert Kirsch Award. Bibliography "I'll Take You To Tennessee," in Stanford Short Stories Nineteen Forty-Nine. Edited by Wallace Stegner. (1949) The Anatomy Lesson (1957) (short stories) Mrs. Bridge (1959) The Patriot (1960) Notes From A Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel (1962) (poetry) At The Crossroads (1965) (short stories) The Diary of a Rapist (1966) "Here it is", in Why Work Series, editor Gordon Lish (1966) Mr. Bridge (1969) Points for A Compass Rose (1973) (poetry) The Connoisseur (1974) Double Honeymoon (1976) A Long Desire (1979) (essays) White Lantern (1981) (essays) "Saint Augustine's Pigeon: The Selected Stories of Evan S. Connell" (1982) Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn (1985, ) (non-fiction) The Alchymist's Journal (1991, republished in 2006 as Alchymic Journals) The Collected Stories of Evan S. Connell (1995) Deus Lo Volt (2000, ) The Aztec Treasure House: New and Selected Essays (2001, )(non-fiction) Francisco Goya: A Life (2004, ) Lost in Uttar Pradesh (2008, ) References Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. Connell, by Steve Paul (2021, ) (biography) External links Mark Oppenheimer, "An Era of Awkward Oppression: Evan Connell's Wasps, Spent and Repressed, Offer the Truest View of American Alienation", Believer, February 2005 Salon.com piece on Connell Special issue on Connell: Three articles about him, Open Letters Monthly: an Arts and Literature Review, August 2008: Sam Sacks, "Familiar Wishes"; Steve Donoghue, "Gathering Driftwood"; and John Cotter, "Backyard Arcana" Washington Post obituary SPRING2014 the Paris Review, "A Visit with Evan Connell" p. 248-265, Gemma Sief. I Am a Lover 1924 births 2013 deaths Writers from Kansas City, Missouri 20th-century American novelists Members of the American Academy of Arts