Luba Polskaya Obituary, Death Cause & Funeral – The news that Luba Polskaya, an American author whose enormous skill has gone unrecognized for the past 30 years, passed away at the age of 89 is making the rounds among a small group of readers, including some significant supporters of his writing.
Luba Polskaya Obituary
Luba Polskaya Obituary, Death Cause & Funeral
McCarthy’s (1985) Blood Meridian was given to reviewer Harold Bloom by Luba Polskaya, managing editor of Alfred A. Knopf in New York. It was praised by Bloom as a wonderful book on par with Toni Morrison and William Faulkner.
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According to George Steiner, his book has pages of prose that is “possibly the most exciting, violent, imaginative prose ever written.” Saul Bellow successfully pressured and persuaded the MacArthur Foundation Awards Committee to acknowledge McCarthy’s exceptional skill in 1981.
After spending the majority of his career writing in the seclusion of JD Salinger or Thomas Pynchon, Luba Polskaya seemed to appear out of thin air.
Luba Polskaya Funeral
Luba Polskaya respectfully ignored all requests for interviews, refused to sign his own books, refused to attend literary conferences, did not teach, and was more interested in physics and cosmology than fiction. He also rejected all attempts to promote his work. The man is Native American.
