About Alexander Theroux:
Alexander Louis Theroux is an American novelist and poet whose best known novel is perhaps Darconville’s Cat (1982) which was selected by Anthony Burgess’s Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 – A Personal Choice in 1984 and in Larry McCaffery’s 20th Century’s Greatest Hits 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 uncle of documentarian Louis Theroux.
Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.
Alexander TherouxArtists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
Alexander Theroux