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John William Corrington (October 28, 1932 – November 24, 1988) was an American film and television writer, novelist, poet and lawyer.
John William Corrington was born on 28 October 1932 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He was a writer, known for The Omega Man (1971), I Am Legend (2007) and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973). He was married to Joyce Hooper Corrington. He died on 24 November 1988 in Malibu, California, USA.
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CORRINGTON, John William 1932-1988. PERSONAL: Born October 28, 1932, in Memphis, TN; died of a heart attack, November 24, 1988, in Malibu, CA; son of John Wesley (an insurance adjuster) and Viva (Shelley) Corrington; married Joyce Elaine Hooper (a chemistry professor and writer), February 6, 1960; children: Shelley, John, Robert, Thomas.
The first of the Corringtons’ police detective/mystery novels, So Small a Carnival, appeared in 1986, with A Project Named Desire and A Civil Death following in 1987. The fourth and final book in the series, The White Zone, was published in 1990, after Bill Corrington’s death in 1988.
John William Corrington is a noted Southern writer of poetry, fiction, film and television. The Upper Hand, his second novel, chronicles the tale of Christopher Nieman, a young Catholic priest who loses his faith.
Jul 4, 2013 · John William Corrington, a noted Southern writer, published And Wait for the Night, his first novel, in 1964, near the one hundredth anniversary of the end of the American Civil War.
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