{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"Russell Banks, award-winning author of 'Cloudsplitter,' dies at 82","publication_date":"January 08, 2023","summary":"Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who imagined the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to the radical abolitionist John Brown in \"Cloudsplitter,\" has died. He was 82.","author_name":"By Hillel Italie, Associated Press","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2023\/01\/66c7b9338df855cf4fbb6aa045dc461b-GettyImages-475824304-1024x683.jpg","thumbnail_height":683,"thumbnail_width":1024}