Promising Author Egolf Kills Himself at 33 (Member of Smoketown Six)

[Placebo]

Tristan Egolf, a political activist and author whose first novel at age 27 won him comparisons to William Faulkner and John Steinbeck, has died. He was 33.

Egolf died May 7 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a Lancaster apartment, said G. Gary Kirchner, Lancaster County coroner.

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Egolf received literary acclaim after the 1998 publication of his first novel, "Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt," a manic tale about a Kentucky farm boy. It was rejected by more than 70 U.S. publishers before being picked up by a French publisher while Egolf was working as a street musician in Paris' arts district.

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Egolf was known in Pennsylvania as the leader of the Smoketown Six, a group of men arrested during a visit by President Bush in July when they stripped down to thong underwear and formed a human pyramid to protest the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal.

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[Carolab]

1. Sounds "fishy".

Another "strange" death with direct links to *.

[sadiesworld]

2. Should you include Smoketown Six in your subject line?

DUers may not recognize the name. :)

[Placebo]

3. Done!

:hi:

[flordehinojos]

4. we will never know if poppy's CIA hands had something to do with the man's

suicide.

[Catherine Vincent]

5. I just found this on yahoo.

And it is a dupe....from Monday http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1456795

But what is strange is why did Yahoo post another thread on it? As far as this promising 33 year old, this suicide is strange (although all of them are). Will Tristan Egolf be added to the Bush body count?

[lildreamer316]

6. I already posted this....n/t