Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home
Author | : Willie Morris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : House & Home |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Willie Morris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : House & Home |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Willie Morris |
Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1994-11-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780316583985 |
The author describes his years as the youngest-ever editor-in-chief of "Harper's," recounting how he rubbed elbows with the likes of Woody Allen and Robert Kennedy
Author | : Jack Bales |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2015-06-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476612315 |
William Weaks Morris was a writer defined in large measure by his Southern roots. A seventh generation Mississippian, he grew up in Yazoo City frequently reminded of his heritage. Spending his college years at the University of Texas and at Oxford University in England gave Morris a taste of the world and, at the very least, something to write home about. This volume is a comprehensive reference work dealing with Willie Morris' life and works. It is also a literary biography based on hundreds of primary sources such as letters, newspaper articles and interviews. The principal focus is on Morris' literary legacy, which includes works such as North Toward Home, New York Days and My Dog Skip.
Author | : Willie Morris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780916242688 |
The author's boyhood escapades in his hometown of Yazoo City, Mississippi.
Author | : Joseph M. Flora |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2006-06-21 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0807131237 |
This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor's place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries-nearly double the earlier edition's-written by 264 scholars. For every figure major and minor, from the venerable and canonical to the fresh and innovative, a biographical sketch and chronological list of published works provide comprehensive, concise, up-to-date information. Here in one convenient source are the South's novelists and short story writers, poets and dramatists, memoirists and essayists, journalists, scholars, and biographers from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. What constitutes a "southern writer" is always a matter for debate. Editors Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel have used a generous definition that turns on having a significant connection to the region, in either a personal or literary sense. New to this volume are younger writers who have emerged in the quarter century since the dictionary's original publication, as well as older talents previously unknown or unacknowledged. For almost every writer found in the previous edition, a new biography has been commissioned. Drawn from the very best minds on southern literature and covering the full spectrum of its practitioners, Southern Writers is an indispensable reference book for anyone intrigued by the subject.
Author | : Lynn Schooler |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2010-05-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 160819289X |
In the spring of 2007, hard on the heels of the worst winter in the history of Juneau, Alaska, Lynn Schooler finds himself facing the far side of middle age and exhausted by laboring to handcraft a home as his marriage slips away. Seeking solace and escape in nature, he sets out on a solo journey into the Alaskan wilderness, traveling first by small boat across the formidable Gulf of Alaska, then on foot along one of the wildest coastlines in North America. Walking Home is filled with stunning observations of the natural world, and rife with nail-biting adventure as Schooler fords swollen rivers and eludes aggressive grizzlies. But more important, it is a story about finding wholeness-and a sense of humanity-in the wild. His is a solitary journey, but Schooler is never alone; human stories people the landscape-tales of trappers, explorers, marooned sailors, and hermits, as well as the mythology of the region's Tlingit Indians. Alone in the middle of several thousand square miles of wilderness, Schooler conjures the souls of travelers past to learn how the trials of life may be better borne with the help and community of others. Walking Home recalls Jonathan Raban's Passage to Juneau or Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, but with a more successful outcome. With elegance and soul, Schooler creates a conversation between the human and the natural, the past and present, to investigate what it means to be a part of the flow of human history.
Author | : Dale Krane |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780803277588 |
The authors of Mississippi Government and Politics go beyond the stereotyped view of the Magnolia State to consider the dramatic social, economic, and political changes taking place there in recent years. Yet the past is inextricably bound up with the present, as Dale Krane and Stephen D. Shaffer make clear in developing their central theme: the ongoing clash in Mississippi between traditionalists intent on preserving the status quo and progressives who have grown up with the civil rights movement. Based in part on public opinion polls measuring the attitudes of Mississippians over a decade, Mississippi Government and Politics presents a vivid social history and analysis of the state's executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Krane and Shaffer have contributed chapters on the culture of Mississippi, the origins and evolution of its ruling class, and efforts to modernize the economy and to bring more blacks and poor whites into the power structure. Krane writes about the struggle over public policy, or "who gets what, " and the highly ambivalent attitude of Mississippians toward the federal government. Shaffer addresses the shifting allegiances of political parties in the state and the role of interest groups in effecting change. The contributors include leading political scientists and public administrators. Tip H. Allen, Jr., looks at the century-old, much-amended constitution, and Douglas G. Feig considers the dominance of the legislature and the winds of change blowing through it. Thomas H. Handy describes the traditionally weak governorship. Diane E. Wall threads her way through the antiquated judicial system. Edward J. Clynch sizes up tax Policy, and Gerald Gabris delves intothe dynamics of local government. The result is the most comprehensive and authoritative book on Mississippi political culture in many years.
Author | : Dorothy Abbott |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 1986-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780878052332 |
Nonfiction recounting the experience of growing up in the Deep South
Author | : Donald M. Kartiganer |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art and literature |
ISBN | : 9781617033872 |
Author | : William Edward Leuchtenburg |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780807130797 |
"At a time when race, class, and gender dominate historical writing, Leuchtenburg argues that place is no less significant. In a period when America is said to be homogenized, he shows that sectional distinctions persist. And in an era when political history is devalued, he demonstrates that government can profoundly affect people's lives and that presidents can be change-makers."--Jacket.