Robert Gover
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| Born: | November 1929 |
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| Occupation: | novelist, journalist, teacher |
| Influences: | Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Gore Vidal |
| Influenced: | Christopher Klim |
| Website: | Official: [1] |
Robert Gover (born November 1929) grew up in an endowed orphanage (Girard College in Philadelphia), received a BA in economics from the University of Pittsburgh, worked as a journalist, became a best-selling novelist at age 30, lived most of his life in California, and now lives in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. On the Run with Dick and Jane is his ninth novel. His previous book, Time and Money, explores economic and planetary cyclical correlations. His first novel, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, a satire on American racism, remains a cult classic that helped break down the USA's fear of four-letter words and sexual explicit scenes, as well as sensitizing Americans to sanctimonious hypocrisy. Gover has worked with writers for three decades, and one of his best known students was American writer Christopher Klim.
[edit] Works
- One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding
- Here Goes Kitten
- J.C. Saves
- The Maniac Responsible
- Poorboy at the Party
- Getting Pretty on the Table
- Going for Mr. Big
- Tomorrow Now Occurs Again
- Voodoo Contra: Contradictory Meanings of the Word
- Time & Money: The Economy and the Planets
- On the Run with Dick and Jane
