RUSSELL BANKS
President and Acting Treasurer

Included among the numerous honors and awards Russell Banks has received are the Ingram Merrill Award, the John Dos Passos Award, and the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A prolific writer of fiction, Russell Banks’ titles include: Cloudsplitter, Searching for Survivors, Family Life, Hamilton Stark, The New World, The Book of Jamaica, Trailerpark, The Relation of My Imprisonment, Continental Drift, Success Stories and Rule of the Bone. Mr. Banks’ work The Angel on the Roof is a collection of thirty years of his short fiction.

Two of his novels, Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter, were adapted into feature films that received widespread critical acclaim. Russell Banks’ most recent work is the novel entitled The Darling (selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the 10 Notable Books of 2004). Set in late 20th-century Liberia, the work spans topics of civil and political upheaval and strained loyalties to country and family. Russell Banks is one of the founders of the City of Refuge programs both in Europe and in North America.