Alexander Louis Theroux:
(born 1939)
American novelist and poet. He is known for his novel Darconville’s Cat (1981), which was selected by Anthony Burgess for his book-length essay Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 – A Personal Choice in 1984 and by Larry McCaffery for his 20th Century’s Greatest Hits list.
September―it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
