He wrote often of seekers and doubters, world travelers through the ages, and conventional folks who secretly yearned to break out. His request to family: no funeral.Ĭonnell was a National Book award finalist, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a finalist in 2009 for the International Man Booker Award for lifetime achievement.Ĭonnell was the author of 19 books, including two book-length poems, a biography of Spanish painter Francisco Goya and a historically detailed novel about the Crusades, "Deus Lo Volt!" He was 88, his niece said.Ĭonnell likely died of old age, said Donna Waller of Hilton Head Island, S.C. On Thursday, the author of "Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn" - a book about Custer's last stand - was found dead in his apartment in Santa Fe, where he had lived in recent years. Bridge" was even made into a movie starring husband and wife movie actors, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Connell gained some attention via his better known books, but the acclaimed author was well-known and regarded fondly by students of literature, critics, and others as an adventurous writer whose body of work reflected a diversity of interests.Ĭonnell's Depression-era Kansas City in the twin novels "Mrs.
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