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John William Corrington (October 28, 1932 – November 24, 1988) was an American film and television writer, novelist, poet and lawyer.
John William and Joyce Corrington. Welcome to the site dedicated to the New Orleans Mystery series written by my late husband and myself. These books have not been available to the public (except through used book stores in expensive out of print hard cover versions).
CORRINGTON, John William 1932-1988. PERSONAL: Born October 28, 1932, in Memphis, TN; died of a heart attack, November 24, 1988, in Malibu, CA; son of John Wesley (an insurance adjuster) and Viva (Shelley) Corrington; married Joyce Elaine Hooper (a chemistry professor and writer), February 6, 1960; children: Shelley, John, Robert, Thomas.
John William Corrington letter to Charles Bukowski, dated June 18, 1962. In July, pleased that Bukowski has reacted favorably to the Georgia Review piece of his novel, Corrington outlines his progress on the novel and reports that he has only five chapters left to write.
Corrington's early writing included poetry, novels, short stories, and academic writing that might best be labeled literary criticism. He would later write crime/detective fiction and screenplays in collaboration with his wife, Joyce Corrington. At age forty, Corrington decided to study law.
John William Corrington has 36 books on Goodreads with 2265 ratings. John William Corrington’s most popular book is A Project Named Desire.
John William Corrington was born in Ohio in 1932; his family moved to Shreveport, Louisiana when he was a young boy. He may have been born in Ohio, and spent some his boyhood years there, but it was Louisiana and, more particularly, Shreveport that Corrington adopted as his spiritual and literary home.
