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Oakley Hall | Novelist and teacher, 87
Oakley Hall, 87, a novelist and writing teacher who helped define California literature in the generation after John Steinbeck, has died.
He died Monday of cancer and kidney disease, said his daughter, Brett Hall Jones.
His body of work includes more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel Warlock, a finalist for the 1958 Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote the libretto for an opera based on Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose.
As director of the creative-writing program at the University of California, Irvine, he helped to begin the careers of writers Richard Ford, Michael Chabon and others. - AP
