William Goyen

Charles William Goyen ( born April 24, 1915 in Trinity, Texas; † August 30, 1983 in Los Angeles ) was an American writer.

Life

William Goyen moved with his family when he was eight years old, to Houston. He attended the Rice Institute and taught for a year as a Master of Arts from the University of Houston literature. During World War II he served in the U.S. Navy as a naval officer on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. His birthplace Trinity is the scene of his first novel House of Breath, which then appeared in 1950 and made ​​him famous in the United States. After the war he settled in Taos, New Mexico, where Frieda Lawrence, the widow of DH Lawrence had given him land. There his story collection Ghost and Flesh, and part of the work In a Farther Country, which he later ended in New York was born. More stories were inspired by trips to Italy and England. In 1983, he died of leukemia. He was married to actress Doris Roberts.

Works

• The House of Breath (1950 )
• Ghost and Flesh (1952 )
• In a Farther Country (1955 )
• The Fair Sister ( 1963)
• Come the Restorer (1974 )
• Collected Stories (1975 )
• Arcadio (1983 )

Works in German language

His best-known in Germany timbered house from breath was translated by Ernst Robert Curtius and first appeared in the Arche Verlag in 1952. Further His work has been translated into German in particular of Elizabeth and whistles.