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Alfred Chester was born in New York City on 7 September, 1928. He was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He was known for his experimental writing style and his exploration of themes such as homosexuality, death, and alienation. Chester attended the University of Chicago, where he studied literature and philosophy. He later moved to Paris, where he wrote his first novel, The Exquisite Corpse (1956). He also wrote several short stories and essays, including "The Homosexual Villain" (1958) and "The Death of the Novel" (1959). Chester's work was praised by critics for its innovative style and its exploration of taboo topics. He was awarded the National Book Award for Fiction in 1965 for his novel Love and Death in the American Novel. Chester died in 1971 at the age of 43. He was survived by his wife, the poet and novelist Diane Wakoski. Chester's net worth is unknown.

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1963

Chester moved to Morocco in 1963. His short story collection Behold Goliath was published in 1964, and his novel The Exquisite Corpse was published in 1967. He associated with Paul Bowles and Jane Bowles while in Morocco, but eventually fell out with both of them.

1959

Starting in 1959, his short fiction was published in magazines such as The New Yorker, Esquire, and Transatlantic Review. His literary criticism appeared in the New York Review of Books, Partisan Review, and Commentary. He returned to the United States and met Susan Sontag through Harriet Sohmers and María Irene Fornés.

1958

Increasingly, his behavior was made erratic by a combination of mental illness and drug use. It is uncertain if he was ever formally diagnosed, but based on his symptoms, he is believed to have suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, the first symptoms of which he displayed in 1958 at age 30 at the MacDowell Artists Colony in New Hampshire. He died in Israel in 1971. His later writing was published posthumously in collections such as Looking for Genet.

1955

His first collection of short stories, Here Be Dragons, was published in 1955. His novel Jamie Is My Heart's Desire was initially published in a French translation, then in an English edition by the British publisher André Deutsch, and only later appeared in the United States. With Caetani's support, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1957. His short story "As I Was Going Up the Stair" was included in Best American Short Stories.

1950

He attended graduate school at Columbia University but dropped out. He lived in France for most of the 1950s as an openly gay man. In 1952 his essay "Silence in Heaven" was published in Marguerite Caetani's literary review Botteghe oscure. (Caetani was the U.S.-born wife of an Italian nobleman.) Chester wrote a pornographic novel, Chariot of Flesh, for Olympia Press, using the pseudonym Malcolm Nesbit.

1928

Alfred Chester (September 7, 1928 – August 1, 1971) was an American writer known for his provocative, experimental work, including the novels Jamie Is My Heart's Desire and The Exquisite Corpse and the short story collection Behold Goliath.

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