Stanley Elkin

Stanley Lawrence Elkin (1930–1995) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Chicago. He earned a PhD from the University of Illinois in 1961 and taught at Washington University in St. Louis from 1960 until his death, producing notable satirical works like The Living End, The Franchiser, and George Mills, for which he won two National Book Critics Circle Awards despite battling multiple sclerosis. LibGuide.