Coover
Americannoun
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Harry Coover was attempting to develop transparent plastics when he instead created a substance that bonded instantly to nearly any surface.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2026
“Bloodline” reminds me of the breed of darkly comic postwar novels by Robert Coover, William H. Gass, Harry Crews and others, in which regional manias stand in for a broader national lunacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Coover appeared on the PBS program “Antiques Roadshow,” and assisted in the sale of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Hammer Codex” to Bill Gates for a record $30.2 million in 1994.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
Mr. Coover recalled that in 1992 he was asked by the grandson of a woman who had recently died to appraise her collection of books.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
From a copyrighted photograph by Place & Coover, Chicago; reproduced by permission of the Etching Publishing Co.,
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896 by Various
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