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The author still speaks of his upbringing and the city with some measure of bitterness.

He has asserted that growing up, he used to be a quiet boy that was in turn dreamy and attentive and often felt out of place among the gardeners, maids, and lawn parties that his parents regularly threw.Īs a very shy boy, living as the heir to one of the most illustrious names in Kansas City was difficult. According to Connell, much of his work is autobiographical in origin. This wealthy and genteel background is showcased and sometimes satirized in “Mrs. The author was born in Kansas City in 1924 to a mother that was the daughter of a judge and a father that was a very well-known doctor. Connell is an author best known for the “Bridge” series of novels. The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American Short StoryĮvan S. The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties The Best of Best American Short Stories 1915-1950 She's as real and as pathetic and as sad as any character I have read in a long time.50 Best American Short Stories, 1915-1939 Bridge, her husband and her children and her neighbors understandable and, because understandable, moving, in his few taut words."" - Dorothy Parker, Esquire He tells her story, less in sketches than in paragraphs, and how it is done I only wish I knew, but he makes Mrs. Connell writes of this woman without patronage, without snickers, without, indeed, any comment whatever on what he sets down of her life. What writing! Economical, piquant, beautiful, true." - Meg Wolitzer, The New York Times Bridge evangelist, telling them that it’s a perfect novel, and then pressing copies on them. And if you haven’t read it, or perhaps have never even heard of it, well, that’s wonderful too, because you are still lucky enough to be able to read it for the first time. a variant of this exchange occurs to me: If you have already read it, that’s wonderful, for chances are you love it too, and know how brilliant it is.