Ronald L. Fair

Ronald Lyman Fair (1932-2018) was born in Chicago where he attended school and began writing as a teenager. After serving three years in the U.S. Navy Fair worked twelve years as a court reporter. His first novel, Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable, was published in 1965 and followed by Hog Butcher in 1966, and World of Nothing: Two Novellas, published in 1970. Hog Butcher, was filmed in 1975 as Cornbread, Earl and Me, and also republished under that name the same year. In 1977 he moved to Finland to study sculpture and create sculptures featured in many exhibitions throughout Scandinavia.