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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 has 36 books on Goodreads with 2255 ratings. John William Corrington’s most popular book is A Project Named Desire.
I Corrington, before he took up the study oflaw at Tulane Law School in 1972—at age forty—was an English pro-fessor who had decided to be a novelist. Novelist learn the craft of writing in all manner of ways, Corrington learned it as a poet.
John William Corrington was a poet, novelist, screenwriter, and lawyer who wrote about the South and the legal profession. He taught English at LSU and Loyola-New Orleans, and collaborated with his wife Joyce on several projects.
Unlike the fiction of Ernest Hemingway, whose "Oak Park remains beneath the surface, invisible and inviolate,"1 John William Corrington's Shreveport and the parishes surrounding it, Caddo and Bossier, appear frequently in his. work. His personal life, however, is another matter entirely. Corrington is.
