AKA Robert Olen Butler, Jr.

Born: 20-Jan-1945
Birthplace: Granite City, IL

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

Military service: US Army (intelligence, 1969-72)

Collector of vintage postcards.

Father: Robert Olen Butler, Sr. (college professor)
Mother: Lucille (executive secretary)
Wife: Elizabeth Dewberry (author, 2nd wife)
Wife: Marylin Geller (poet, 4th wife, m. 1972, one child)
Son: Joshua Robert Butler

    Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1993 for A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
    Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Award
    Guggenheim Fellowship

Author of books:
The Alleys of Eden (1981)
Sun Dogs (1982)
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1992)

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