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Full Name: Gilbert Sorrentino
Biography:
(1929-2006) Novelist, poet. Gilbert Sorrentino was born in and died in Brooklyn, New York.
Author's Timeline:
1929 Kings County
Gilbert Sorrentino was born in Brooklyn, New York, April 27, 1929. 
1979 (Unknown) County
Mulligan Stew
(Pub: New York: Grove Press ISBN: 0802101739 ISBN-13: 978-0394507170)
Comic novel. 
1970 (Unknown) County
Steelwork
(Pub: Pantheon Books ISBN: )
Novel. 
1971 (Unknown) County
Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
(Pub: New York: Pantheon Books ISBN: 0394471083 ISBN-13: 978-0394471082)
Novel. 
1980 (Unknown) County
Aberration of Starlight
(Pub: New York: Random House ISBN: 0394511891 ISBN-13: 978-0394511894)
Novel. 
1966 (Unknown) County
The Sky Changes
(Pub: New York: Hill and Wang ISBN: )
Novel. 
1983 (Unknown) County
Blue Pastoral
(Pub: Berkeley, California: North Point Press ISBN: 0865470952 ISBN-13: 978-0865470958)
Novel. 
2006 (Unknown) County
A Strange Commonplace
(Pub: Coffee House Press ISBN: )
Fiction. 
1960 (Unknown) County
The Darkness Surrounds Us
(Pub: Highlands, North Carolina: Jonathan Williams ISBN: )
Poetry. 
1986 (Unknown) County
A Beehive Arranged on Humane Principles
(Pub: New York: Grenfell Press ISBN: )
Poetry. 
1984 (Unknown) County
Something Said
(Pub: Berkeley, California: North Point Press ISBN: 0865471770 ISBN-13: 978-0865471771)
Criticism. 
1971 Westchester County
Mr. Sorrentino taught at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, from 1971 to 1972. 
1965 New York County
Mr. Sorrentino taught at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York, in 1965. 
2006 Kings County
Gilbert Sorrentino died in Brooklyn, New York, on May 18, 2006. 
1950 Kings County
Sorrentino studied at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York, from 1950-51 and 1955-57. 
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