John William Corrington

John William Corrington (October 1932 - November 1988) was an American movie and television writer, novelist, poet, and lawyer. He received a B.A. degree from Centenary College in 1956 and his M.A. from Rice University in 1960, the year he took on his first teaching position in the English Department at Louisiana State University. While on leave from LSU, Corrington obtained his D.Phil. in 1965 from the University of Sussex, and then, in 1966, moved to Loyola University-New Orleans as Associate Professor of English, where he also served as chair of the English Department. Corrington graduated from Tulane Law School in 1975, joined a small New Orleans personal injury law firm, Plotkin and Bradley, and spend the next three years practicing law.

During this time Corrington published four books of poetry, "Where We Are" (1962), "The Anatomy of Love" (1964) , "Mr. Clean" (1964), and "Lines to the South" (1965). With Miller Williams, Corrington edited "Southern Writing in the Sixties: Fiction" (1966) and "Southern Writing in the Sixties: Poetry" (1967). Corrington also published four books of short stories, "The Lonesome Traveler" (1968), "The Actes and Monuments" (1978), "The Southern Reporter" (1981), and "All My Trials" (1987), and four novels, "And Wait for the Night" (1964), "The Upper Hand" (1967), "The Bombardier" (1970) and "Shad Sentell" (1984). He won an Award in Fiction from the National Endowment for the Art and had a story included in the "O.Henry Award Stories" (1976) and three in the "Best American Short Stories" series (1973, 1976 and 1977).

With his wife, Joyce Hooper Corrington, Corrington wrote five screenplays, "Von Richthofen and Brown" (1969), "The Omega Man" (1970), "Boxcar Bertha" (1971), "The Arena" (1972) and "The Battle for the Planet of the Apes" (1973) and a television movie, "The Killer Bees" (1974).

Corrington gave up the practice of law in 1978, and he and his wife Joyce Corrington, became Head Writers for daytime serials. The Corringtons scripted "Search for Tomorrow" (1978-80), "Another World" (1980), "Texas" (1980 - 1981), "General Hospital" (1982; hired by Gloria Monty), "Capitol" (1982 - 1983, [hired by John Conboy), "One Life to Live" (1984). They wrote and produced "Superior Court", a syndicated series (1986 - 1989). "Texas" and "Superior Court" were each nominated twice for a Daytime Emmy Award.

During this time the Corringtons also published "So Small a Carnival" (1986), "A Project Named Desire" (1987), "A Civil Death" (1987) and "The White Zone" (1990). After Bill Corrington's death, his novella "Decoration Day" was adapted as a Hallmark Hall of Fame television special (1990), which was nominated for an Emmy and won a Christopher Award and a Golden Globe award. "The Collected Stories of John William Corrington" was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press.

Centenary College has an award in his name, the John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence.

External links

* [http://www.centenary.edu/english/events/corrington/ The Corrington Award for Literary Excellence]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0181019/]
* [http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/lsf/mitchell24.htm]
* [http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/bookPages/9780807124888.html]
* [http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/LitCheck/corrington.htm]
* [http://www.centenary.edu/news/2005/October/corrington.html]
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