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20/05/2005
American author Tristan Egolf dies at 33
Author Tristan Egolf, a promising American author whose first novel in 1998 - Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt - was compared to William Faulkner and John Steinbeck, has died aged 33.
Egolf died on 7 May of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his apartment in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, according to the Lancaster County coroner.
Lord of the Barnyard was rejected by more than 70 American publishers before being picked up by a French publisher while Egolf was working as a street musician in Paris.
Egolf's second book, Skirt and the Fiddle, was published in 2002, and a third novel, Kornwolf, is due to be released next year.
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