[1] Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI.
Father: Howard Cassill (school superintendent)
Mother: Mary E. Glosser (teacher)
Brother: H. Carroll Cassill
Sister: LaJean Holstein
Wife: Kathleen Rosecranz (div.)
Wife: Karilyn Kay Adams (m. 1956, two sons, one daughter)
Son: Orin E. Cassill
Son: Jesse B. Cassill
Daughter: Erica Cassill Wood
University: BA, University of Iowa (1939)
University: MA, University of Iowa (1947)
Teacher: University of Iowa (1948-52)
University: Sorbonne (1952-53, on a Fulbright)
Teacher: Lecturer, New School for Social Research (1957-59)
Teacher: Lecturer, Columbia University (1957-59)
Teacher: Lecturer, University of Iowa (1960-65)
Professor: Brown University (1966-83)
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Fulbright 1952
Guggenheim Fellowship 1968
Author of books:
The Eagle on the Coin (1950, novel)
Dormitory Women (1953, novel)
The Left Bank of Desire (1955, novel, with Eric Protter)
A Taste of Sin (1955, novel)
The General Said "Nuts." (1955, nonfiction)
The Hungering Shame (1956, novel)
The Wound of Love (1956, novel)
An Affair to Remember (1957, novel, as Owen Aherne)
Naked Morning (1957, novel)
Man on Fire (1957, novel, as Owen Aherne)
The Buccaneer (1958, novel)
Lustful Summer (1958, novel)
Nurses' Quarters (1958, novel)
The Tempest (1959, novel)
The Wife Next Door (1959, novel)
Clem Anderson (1960, novel)
My Sister's Keeper (1961, novel)
Night School (1961, novel)
Writing Fiction (1963, nonfiction)
Pretty Leslie (1963, novel)
The President (1964, novel)
The Father and Other Stories (1965, short stories)
The Happy Marriage and Other Stories (1967, short stories)
In an Iron Time: Statements and Reiterations: Essays (1967, essays)
La Vie Passionée of Rodney Buckthorne: A Tale of the Great American's Last Rally and Curious Death (1968, novel)
Doctor Cobb's Game (1969, novel)
The Goss Women (1974, novel)
Hoyt's Child (1976, novel)
Labors of Love (1980, novel)
Flame (1980, novel)
Three Stories (1982, short stories)
After Goliath (1985, novel)
Patrimonies (1988, short stories)
Collected Stories (1989, short stories)
The Unknown Soldier (1991, novel)
