He won a National Book Award for “Spartina,” beating out novels by Amy Tan and E.L. Doctorow. A longtime professor, he lived for a time without electricity on an island. By Clay Risen John Casey, a ...
John Casey, an author, teacher and outdoorsman who won the National Book Award for “Spartina,” a metaphor-rich novel about an ornery fisherman’s quest to finish his 50-foot wooden boat, hunt swordfish ...