Author: Alabama Library Association. Bibliographic CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 859
Book Description
Alabama Authors and Their Works: 20th Century
Author: Alabama Library Association. Bibliographic CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 859
Book Description
20TH CENTURY ALABAMA AUTHORS.
Author: 20th Century Alabama Authors
Author: Alabama Library Association. Bibliographic CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Twentieth Century Alabama Authors
Author: Twentieth century Alabama Authors
Author: Fletcher S. RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
The Remembered Gate
Author: Jay LamarPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817350543
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In The Remembered Gate, nationally prominent fiction writers, essayists, and poets recall how their formative years in Alabama shaped them as people and as writers. The essays range in tone from the pained and sorrowful to the wistful and playful, in class from the privileged to the poverty-stricken, in geography from the rural to the urban, and in time from the first years of the 20th century to the height of the Civil Rights era and beyond.
Alabama in the Twentieth Century
Author: Wayne FlyntPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081731430X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
A native son and accomplished historian does not flinch from pointing out Alabama's failures from the past 100 years; neither is he restrained in calling attention to the state's triumphs in this authoritative, popular history of the past 100 years.
Many Voices, Many Rooms
Author: Philip D. BeidlerPublisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817309046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This treasury of Alabama fiction showcases the rich literary heritage of the state. Many Voices, Many Rooms: A New Anthology of Alabama Writers is a companion volume to the extremely popular Art of Fiction in the Heart of Dixie: An Anthology of Alabama Writers. The earlier work is now a classic in its own right, but no single volume can do justice to the wealth and variety of Alabama fiction. Adding to the bounty, this new anthology contains works by important 19th- and early 20th-century writers, as well as by more familiar post-World War II and contemporary Alabama authors. Like the earlier volume, it contains works by both men and women writers, by writers of diverse racial origins, and by writers representing the various geographical regions of the state. Containing no authors included in the earlier volume, this new anthology fills in the spaces old and new in a vast field of many talented Alabama writers.
Books by Alabama Authors, 1950-52
Author: Alabama Public Library ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Monroeville
Author: Kathy McCoyPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738554372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Monroeville is the county sear of Monroe County, a count older than the state of Alabama itself. Located in what was the western Creek Nation, Monroeville became the center of county business in 1832, eighteen years after the surrender of the Creeks to Andrew Jackson. Monroeville soon became a powerful political base in the state. In the 20th century, it hosted visits from "Big Jim" Folsom as well as George Wallace, a powerful young orator who would change the face of American politics. Today, Monroeville is known as the childhood home of internationally known authors Harper Lee and Truman Capote. Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird was set in a small town that still Southern town based on Monroeville. Many of Capote's short stories and novels were drawn from his Monroeville experiences. Visitors from around the world come to the town that still remembers when Truman rented the town's only taxi for the weekend and drove around for days "visiting". Townsfolk like to talk about the time Gregory Peck came to town to meet the many of the people who were inspirations for the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird. As other writers from Monroeville emerge, such as Mark Childress and Cynthia Tucker, one wonders how many more stories the town holds, as well as what is so special about a small, rural southwestern Alabama town call Monroeville.