John Blair Linn Goodwin (1912–1994) was an American author and poet, best known for his story "The Cocoon" (1946), collected in Houghton Mifflin's The Best American Short Stories in 1947. A further short story was "Stone Still, Stone Cold" (1949).
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Born | John Blair Linn Goodwin (1912-02-25)25 February 1912 Manhattan, New York, US |
Died | 12 January 1994(1994-01-12) (aged 81) |
Occupation | Author, poet |
Goodwin was a native of Manhattan and a world traveler.[1] His other works include a children's book titled Freddy Fribbs (Flea);[2] the 1940 children's book The Pleasant Pirate;[3] the 1952 novel The Idols and the Prey, about Haiti;[4] and the 1963 novella A View from Fuji. He died on 12 January 1994 at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital.[1]
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