John William Corrington (October 28, 1932 â€" November 24, 1988) was
an American film and television writer, novelist, poet and lawyer.John
William Corrington (October 28, 1932 â€" November 24, 1988) was an
American film and television writer, novelist, poet and
lawyer.Corrington attended St. John's High School (now known as Loyola
College Prep) but was expelled after smoking cigarettes on the front
steps of the Parish church next door. Ultimately, he graduated from C.
E. Byrd High School, in Shreveport, LA. He received his B.A. degree
from Centenary College in 1956 and his M.A. from Rice University in
1960, the year he took on his first teaching position in the English
Department at Louisiana State University. While on leave from LSU,
Corrington obtained his D.Phil. in 1965, from the University of Sussex
and then moved to Loyola University New Orleans in 1966, as an
Associate Professor of English, where he also served as chair of the
English Department. Corrington graduated from Tulane University Law
School in 1975, joined a small New Orleans personal injury law firm,
Plotkin and Bradley, and spent the next three years practicing
law.During this time Corrington published four books of poetry, Where
We Are (1962), The Anatomy of Love (1964), Mr. Clean (1964) and Lines
to the South (1965). With Miller Williams, Corrington edited Southern
Writing in the Sixties: Fiction (1966) and Southern Writing in the
Sixties: Poetry (1967). Corrington also published four books of short
stories, The Lonesome Traveler (1968), The Actes and Monuments (1978),
The Southern Reporter (1981) and All My Trials (1987) and four novels,
And Wait for the Night (1964), The Upper Hand (1967), The Bombardier
(1970) and Shad Sentell (1984). He won an Award in Fiction from the
National Endowment for the Arts and had a story included in the O.
Henry Award Stories (1976) and three in the Best American Short
Stories series, (1973, 1976 and 1977). John William Corrington Top Movies & Young Movies