Sam Savage

Samuel Phillips Savage (November 9, 1940 – January 17, 2019)[1] was an American novelist and poet, best known for his 2006 novel Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife.

Prior to attending Yale he was poetry editor of Reflections, a small literary magazine published in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in the early 1960s, and was active in the Civil Rights Movement.

In 2006, Savage published Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife, a darkly humorous story about a bookstore rat in difficult times.

The death of Peter Meinienger, his friend turned romantic and intellectual rival, prompts him to ruminate on his own career as a minor artist and collector and make sense of a lifetime of gnawing doubt.

Over time, his bitterness toward his family, his gentrifying neighborhood, and the decline of intelligent artistic discourse gives way to a kind of peace within himself, as he emerges from the shadow of the past and finds a reason to live, every day, in "the now".

[5] His last novel, It Will End with Us, published in 2014, is a first person narrative by an aging upper class woman from the American South who is trying to discover the truth about her past from a collection of fragmentary, perhaps uncertain, memories.

Savage was a finalist for the 2007 Awards for books published in 2006 from the Society of Midland Authors,[7] a 2006 Litblog Co-op Read This choice,[8] as well as a Barnes & Noble Great New Writers pick.