Tag: Flannery O’Connor Award

Born: May 27, 1941Died: April 14, 2017 Ohio connection: Birth Painesville Journalist and writer of novels and short stories, Robert Halsall Abel was born in Painesville; the son of Robert H. (a textile worker) and Lora Constance Logan (a school bus driver).  Robert Abel attended the College of Wooster from 1959-1964; he left college in …