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Home in the South
Some writers who lived in or considered the south their home.
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
Author: Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell admired people who had gumption, people who fought their way through hard times triumphantly and came out survivors. She said that if her novel, Gone with the Wind, had a theme it was survival, "I wrote about the people who had gumption and the people who didn't."
Posted on Thu, Nov 01, 2001
Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Life
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston was the fifth of eight children born to John Hurston, a carpenter, and Lucy Potts Hurston, a former schoolteacher. Hurston grew up in Eatonville, a small town 10 miles northeast of Orlando, Florida. Hurston frequently fudged her birthdate as 1901, but most scholars believe she was born in 1891.
Posted on Wed, Nov 01, 2000
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Author: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time. So ends the book, Cross Creek, written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Posted on Wed, Jan 05, 2000
Carl Sandburg's Connemara
Author: Carl Sandburg
Twenty-four miles south of Asheville in Flat Rock, NC, there once lived a Midwestern poet that wrote for the common man. His name was Carl Sandburg. He was a Pulitzer Prize winning poet & biographer, most famous for his Chicago Poems, American Songbag and massive biography of Abraham Lincoln.
Posted on Thu, Jul 01, 1999
A Good Writer Is Hard To Find:
The Search For Flannery O'Connor
Author: Flannery O'Connor
To try and get more from a writer than what you see on the page, depends on the writer and their ability to make you see, and of course your own imagination. When that work is so distinct and the characters so clear, you sometimes think you know something about that writer and who they were. It could be argued that a writer can be found in their words, but a good writer may be hard to find in those words which may often confound the reader rather than betray the writer.
Posted on Mon, Mar 01, 1999
Sunset Grand Isle, LA - A visit to the setting of The Awakening
Author: Kate Chopin
Grand Isle, a three hour drive south of New Orleans, is on the outermost shore of Louisiana. The drive takes quite some time since the winding narrow road is accessible by only two cars at a time. The slow pace gives you a chance to pass a rather scenic view of bayou life. Small towns, small homes, and bait shops line the side of the road, a land full of seafood restaurants and fishing gear to buy or rent.
Posted on Tue, Sep 01, 1998
Footprints in Cloutierville
Author: Kate Chopin
If you didn't know Kate Chopin had lived there for a time, you might never have heard of or driven through Cloutierville with a second glance. Located along the Cane River in Natchitoches Parish in Northwest Louisiana, Cloutierville (pronounced Cloochyville) is approximately 260 miles from New Orleans.
Posted on Mon, Jun 01, 1998
Thomas Wolfe's Dixieland -
Thomas Wolfe's Old Kentucky Home
Author: Thomas Wolfe
The Old Kentucky Home, known as "Dixieland" in the novel Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe, is located at 48 Spruce Street in downtown Asheville. The novel is autobiographical and Wolfe presents Dixieland more as a prison than a home, which has the protagonist, Eugene Gant, by the soul. Wolfe had a love hate relationship with the house, his family and the town.
Posted on Mon, Jun 01, 1998
Thomas Wolfe's Angel
Author: Thomas Wolfe
In the novel, Look Homeward Angel, Thomas Wolfe described the stone statue of an angel, which stood for years on the porch of his father's tombstone shop at 28 Park Square in Asheville:
Posted on Fri, Oct 17, 1997
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