Hilary Masters

Hilary Masters (February 3, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri – June 14, 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was an American novelist, the son of poet Edgar Lee Masters, and Ellen Frances Coyne Masters. He attended Davidson College from 1944 to 1946, then served in the U.S. Navy from 1946 to 1947 as a naval correspondent. He completed his BA at Brown University in 1952.

Works The Common Pasture, novel (New York: Macmillan, 1967) An American Marriage, novel (New York: Macmillan, 1969) Palace of Strangers, novel (New York: World Publishing, 1971) Last Stands: Notes from Memory , biography (Boston: David Godine, 1982) Clemmons, novel (Boston: David Godine, 1985) Hammertown Tales , short stories (Winston-Salem: Wright, 1986) Cooper, novel (New York: St. Martin's, 1987) Manuscript for Murder, novel under pseudonym P. J. Coyne (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1987) Strickland, novel (New York: St. Martin's, 1989) Success: New and Selected Short Stories, short stories (New York: St. Martin's, 1992) Home Is the Exile, novel (Sag Harbor: Permanent Press, 1996) In Montaigne's Tower, essays (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000) Shadows On a Wall: Juan O'Gorman and the Mural in Patzcuaro, nonfiction (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005) Elegy for Sam Emerson, novel (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2006) How the Indians Buried Their Dead, short stories (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2009) Post: A Fable, novel (2011)