Vance Nye Bourjaily (September 17, 1922 – August 31, 2010) was an American novelist, playwright, journalist, creative writing teacher, and essayist.
His Arab American themes are explored by literary critic Evelyn Shakir[3] Bourjaily graduated from Bowdoin College with a B.A.
According to his wife, Bourjaily died in Greenbrae, California on August 31, 2010[1] after slipping into a coma just a few days after suffering from a fall.
[citation needed] Critics said that the novel borrowed heavily from the style and tone of Ernest Hemingway.
[citation needed] However, the novel was met with praise and was hailed by critic John W. Aldridge as a war novel on the level of Hemingway's Farewell to Arms.
[6] Bourjaily's second novel, The Hound of Earth, paints a picture of Cold War America through the eyes of a scientist who helped develop the atomic bomb.