Rust Hills

Lawrence Rust Hills (9 November 1924 – 12 August 2008) was an American author and fiction editor at "Esquire" from 1957 to 1964, though he remained associated with the magazine until 1999.

Authors he championed include Norman Mailer, John Cheever, William Styron, Bruce Jay Friedman, William Gaddis, James Salter, Don DeLillo, Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver and E. Annie Proulx.Weber, Bruce (August 13, 2008). [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/books/14hills.html L. Rust Hills, Fiction Editor at Esquire, Dies at 83.] "New York Times"]

His 1979 book "Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular" outlined his views on short story craft.Hills, Rust (1979). "Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular: An Informal Textbook". Bantam Books, 1979 9780553123791]

Hills died in Belfast, Maine of cardiac arrest.

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