Novelist Frederick Busch, 64
By Matt Schudel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 26, 2006; Page C08Frederick Busch, 64, a writer whose novels and short stories were esteemed by critics but who never quite found a large following with the general public, died of a heart attack Feb. 23 at a New York City hospital. He lived near the central New York town of Sherburne.
Since 1971, Mr. Busch had written 27 books and came to be known, perhaps in sympathy with his middling sales, as the quintessential “writer’s writer.” Novelist Scott Spencer called him “a first-rate American storyteller,” and Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley praised him as “a serious and gifted novelist” whose stories and novels “tend to be quiet, reflective and subtle.”
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