Robert Goolrick

(b.1948)

Robert Goolrick was born in a small town in Virginia and attended John Hopkins University.Fired after 30 years in the advertising business, Goolrick wrote his memoir, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life. A Reliable Wife is his first novel.Goolrick currently lives in New York City.

Genres: General Fiction

Novels

   A Reliable Wife (2009)
   Heading Out to Wonderful (2012)
   The Fall of Princes (2015)
   The Dying of the Light (2018)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Final Ball of Orianne de Premonville (2014)

Non fiction show

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