Literary Library

Josephine Humphries

by Angela Beck
February 2, 1945 -  American novelist and teacher Author of "Dreams of Sleep" (for which she won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 1984), "Rich...
Academic Film Guggenheim Novel Novelist PEN/Hemingway Award South Southern Southern Book Award Teach Teacher

Janisse Ray

by Angela Beck
February 2, 1962 - American writer, naturalist, environmental activist and professorAuthor of "Ecology of a Cracker Childhood" (for which she won ...
Activist American Book Award Environment Environmentalist Natural World Naturalist Nature Professor Southern Southern Book Critics Circle Award Southern Environmental Award Teach Teacher Writer

Henry Timrod

by Angela Beck
December 8, 1828 - October 7, 1867American poet, lawyer, teacher, editor and correspondentHis poems include "Katie", "Ethnogenesis", "A Call to Ar...
American South Confederacy Correspondent Editor Law Lawyer Poem Poems Poet Poetry School South South Carolina Southern Southern History Teach Teacher

John Berendt

by Angela Beck
Born December 5, 1939 -  American writer, editor and columnistAuthor of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" (for which he was finalist for t...
Columnist Editor Georgia Pulitzer Prize Savannah South Southern Writer

Suzanne Lebsock

by Angela Beck
December 1, 1949 - American author and historianAuthor of "The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784 - 1860", "Virg...
American History American South Author Historian history South Southern Southern History Virginia