FALL 2012
Celebrating The Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
THE BACKDROP
Exploring the Writers in the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame (introduction)
The Georgia Writers Hall of Fame (essay)
From the Archives: Holding Value (essay)
THE WRITERS
(1790–1870) From Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c. in the First Half Century of the Republic (“Author’s Preface” and“The Horse Swap”)
(ca. 1804–1839) From An Address to the Whites. Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church [of Philadelphia] on the 26th of May, 1826. (speech)
(1842–1881) From The Marshes of Glynn (poem) and Letters to Mr. and Mrs. Gibson Peacock and Mr. Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1848–1908) An Editor Must Have a Purpose (editorial)
(1868–1963) From Georgia: Invisible Empire State (essay)
(1877–1966) To John Brown; The Passing of the Ex-Slave; and Cosmopolite (poems)
(1889–1973) Autumnal (poem) and Letters to T. S. Eliotand Harriet Monroe
(1894–1967) Portrait in Georgia and Georgia Dusk (poems)
(1897–1966) Lillian Smith Answers Some Questions about Strange Fruit (interview) and Are We Still Buying a New World with Old Confederate Bills? (speech)
(1898–1969) A Church, a School and “Ninety Per Cent Are Lunatics” (editorials); and A Matter of Change (review of Lillian Smith’s Now Is the Time)
on Erskine Caldwell (1903–1987) The Legacy of Erskine Caldwell (essay); and Erskine Caldwell Letter to William Sutton
(1909–1976) Johnny Mercer: “They Know His Songs” (essay)
(1916–1987) From The Confessions of Willie Styron (essay)
(1917–1967) Truth: The Road or the Rug (essay)
(1917–1958) Letter to the Editor and From The Black Notebook
(1922–1995) From Unmailed Letters Mailed Late and Letterto Arthur Penn
(1923–1997) James Dickey and Georgia (essay)
(b. 1924) On Craftmanship (essay) and 1991 State of Human Rights Address (speech)
(1925–1964) O’Connor Plus Bishop Plus Closely Plus Distance (essay)
(1925–2007) The New Realism (essay)
(1934–1991) Theophilia (fiction)
(1935–2012) You’ll Like My Mother’s Grave (fiction)
(1936–2008) Imagine with Me Now the Final Room (poem)
(b. 1937) Catkins; A Perfect New Moon; and Piecemeal (poems)
(b. 1938) Ty Cobb and the Book That Wasn’t (essay)
(1941–2002) The Earth Is the Lord’s but He’s Giving It to the Meek (symposium talk)
(b. 1944) Uncle Remus, No Friend of Mine (article)
“I Know What the Earth Says”: From an Interview with Alice Walker
(b. 1949) A Red Canoe and An Absence (poems)
(b. 1950) The Tip (poem)
(b. 1952) A Brief Account of the Adventures of My Appropriated Kinsman, Juan Ortiz, Indian Captive, Soldier, and Guide to General Hernando de Soto (essay)
(b. 1952) From The Temple Bombing (essay)
(b. 1966) Vigilance (poem)
BOOK COVER FOLIOS (1864-2011)
(1864–1907) Elias Boudinot and Samuel Worcester’s Cherokee Hymn Book, Compiled from Several Authors and Revised (1877); Augustus Baldwin Longstreet’s Master William Mitten or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck (1864); Joel Chandler Harris’ Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches (1887); and Sidney Lanier’s Hymns of the Marshes (1907)
(1948–1971) Frank Yerby’s The Man from Dahomey (1971); Calder Willingham’s The Girl in Dogwood Cabin (1956); Erskine Caldwell’s Midsummer Passion (1948); and Carson McCullers’ The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1953)
(1972–1996) Raymond Andrews’ The Last Radio Baby (1990); Harry Crews’s Car (1972); Alice Walker’s Meridian (1976); and Walter White’s Fire in the Flint (1996)
(1990–2011) Terry Kay’s To Dance with the White Dog (from top left, clockwise: 1990, 2011, 1994, 2002); Judith Ortiz Cofer’s Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer (2000); Coleman Barks’s Winter Sky: New and Selected Poems, 1968–2008 (2008); and Natasha Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002)
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