Rv cassill biography
A native of Cedar Falls, Iowa, R.V. Cassill was a.!
R. V. Cassill, (Ronald Verlin Cassill), 1919 – 2002 was a prolific writer, reviewer, editor, painter, and lithographer.
Ronald Verlin Cassill, known by his pen name R. V. Cassill, (May 17, – March 25, ) was a writer, reviewer, editor, painter and lithographer.
He is most noted for his novels and short stories, for which he won several awards and grants.
The New York Times referred to him as a "man of letters who was a novelist, short-story writer, editor, book reviewer and teacher of creative writing."
Life and work
Cassill was born on May 17, 1919 in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
He earned a B.A. in art at The University of Iowa in 1939. From 1942 to 1946, Cassill served the United States Army in the Medical Administration Core as a first lieutenant, stationed in the South Pacific. Cassill's wartime experiences culminate in his short story "The Conditions of Justice," published in 1947, and won him his first Atlantic Monthly.
After returning from the war, Cassill studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1946, where his artistic skills flourished. He mounted exhibits i
