Richard McCann
Richard McCann | |
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| Born | December 12, 1949 |
| Died | January 25, 2021 (aged 71) Washington, D.C. |
| Occupation | Writer, professor |
| Education | MA in Creative Writing and Modern Literature, Hollins University. MA and PhD in American Studies from the University of Iowa |
| Alma mater | Iowa |
| Period | 20th & 21st centuries |
| Genre | Poetry, Nonfiction, Gay literature Memoir |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim, Fulbright, Rockefeller, NEA |
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Richard John McCann (December 12, 1949 – January 24, 2021) was an American writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He lived in Washington, D.C., where he was a longtime professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University.
As a teenager, he wrote to Bette Davis, whose work he greatly admired; they shared a correspondence which he recounted in a 2016 article in the Washington Post.