You Must Read This The Unexamined Life Examined In 'Mrs. Only after the huge success of his Custer book, Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn, did he have some money to put away for old age. But he always had a day job - first working as a clerk in San Francisco, and later reading utility meters in Santa Cruz. Connell began writing after a stint as a Navy pilot during the Second World War, and then a return to Kansas to finish his undergraduate degree. The first group scarcely kept him in supplies. For most of his career, Connell had two reading publics: those folks who admired his fiction and those who admired his nonfiction. Oddly, these great strengths made for a weakness. They suggest the broad reach of his talent - his genius for both inventing memorable characters out of his own experience and observation, and reimagining historical figures based on his dogged research and chiseled prose. Connell, who died this week at the age of 88. Custer are some of the most memorable creations of Evan S. One in a dining room, in a house in a Kansas City neighborhood, the other riding across the rolling plains of Montana. You know their names, you can see their faces, even hear their voices as they move across the landscapes in your mind. Custer: one an invented character, the other a historical figure. Bridge to Custer's last stand in Son of the Morning Star, died Thursday in Santa Fe, N.M. Connell, whose literary explorations ranged from Depression-era Kansas City in the twin novels Mrs.
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