Alexander theroux biography

          Alexander Louis Theroux (born ) is an American novelist and poet.!

          Alexander Theroux

          American novelist and poet

          Alexander Louis Theroux (born 1939) is an American novelist and poet.

          Alexander Louis Theroux is an American novelist and poet.

        1. Alexander Louis Theroux is an American novelist and poet.
        2. I was born in Medford, Massachusetts in , into a working-class family of seven, five boys and two girls.
        3. Alexander Louis Theroux (born ) is an American novelist and poet.
        4. Theroux has also published two widely regarded books of essays, The Primary Colors & The Secondary Colors ( & ), along with a.
        5. Alexander Theroux is a novelist, poet, and essayist.

          6. He is known for his novel Darconville's Cat (1981), which was selected by Anthony Burgess for his book-length essay Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 – A Personal Choice in 1984 and by Larry McCaffery for his 20th Century's Greatest Hits list.[1]

          He was awarded the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1991 and the Clifton Fadiman Medal for Fiction in 2002 by the Mercantile Library in New York City.

          He is the brother of novelist Paul Theroux and writer/translator Peter Theroux as well as the uncle of documentarian Louis Theroux, novelist Marcel Theroux, and actor Justin Theroux.

          Early life

          Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts, the first son of Catholic parents; his mother, Anne (born Dittami), was Italian American, and his father, Albert Eugene Theroux, was French Canadian.

          His mother was a grammar school teacher and his f