John William Corrington

John William Corrington (October 28, 1932 – November 24, 1988) was an American film and television writer, novelist, poet and lawyer.

Biography

A Roman Catholic, 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, Louisiana.

He earned his B.A. degree from Centenary College in 1956 and his Master of Arts 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 doctor of philosophy 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.

Literary career

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).

With his wife, Joyce, Corrington wrote five screenplays, Von Richthofen and Brown (1969), The Omega Man (1970), Boxcar Bertha (1971),