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Cassandra King
Cassandra King (born 18 February 1944) is an American writer. She has written five novels: ''Making Waves in Zion'' (1995), '' The Sunday Wife'' (2002), ''The Same Sweet Girls'' (2005), ''Queen of Broken Hearts'' (2007), and ''Moonrise'' (2013). King grew up in Pinckard, Alabama, and attended Alabama College ( BA, 1967). She later returned to the same institution (now called the University of Montevallo) and obtained an MFA in 1988. She has taught at Jefferson State Community College, Gadsden State Community College, and the University of Montevallo. King was married to a pastor, and then divorced. She based her novel '' The Sunday Wife'' on her experience. She then married writer Pat Conroy in 1998. After his death in 2016, King wrote a memoir, ''Tell Me a Story: My Life With Pat Conroy'' (2019), which was awarded the 2020 Southern Book Prize for nonfiction. King won Troy University Troy University is a public university in Troy, Alabama, United States. It was founded in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sunday Wife
''The Sunday Wife'' is a 2002 novel by Cassandra King, published by Hyperion Books. The title character (and narrator) is Dean Lynch, married to Ben Lynch, a Methodist minister in the Florida panhandle. It is semi-autobiographical, based on King's own failed marriage to a preacher. ''The Sunday Wife'' was a Book Sense The American Booksellers Association (ABA) is a non-profit trade association founded in 1900 that promotes independent bookstores in the United States. ABA's core members are key participants in their communities' local economy and culture, and to ... pick and a Salt Lake Libraries Readers’ Choice Award nominee. References {{reflist 2002 American novels Novels set in Florida Novels about Christian clergy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Conroy
Donald Patrick Conroy (October 26, 1945 – March 4, 2016) was an American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs; his books ''The Water Is Wide (book), The Water is Wide'', ''The Lords of Discipline'', ''The Prince of Tides (novel), The Prince of Tides'' and ''The Great Santini (novel), The Great Santini'' were made into films, the last two being nominated for Oscars. He is recognized as a leading figure of late-20th-century Southern literature, American Southern literature. Early life Born in Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, Patrick "Pat" Conroy was the eldest of seven children (five boys and two girls) born to United States Marine Corps, Marine Colonel Donald Conroy, of Chicago, Illinois, and the former Frances "Peggy" Peek of Alabama. His father was a Marine Corps fighter pilot, and Conroy moved often in his youth, attending 11 schools by the time he was 15. He did not have a hometown until his family settled in Beaufort, South Carolina, where he finis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Dale County, Alabama
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American Women Novelists
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Living People
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1944 Births
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa. ** Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat. * January 8 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces. * January 11 ** United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security, in his State of the Union address. ** The Nazi German administration expands Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp into the larger standalone ''Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau'' in occupied Poland. * January 12 – WWII: Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle begin a 2-day conference in Marrakech. * Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harper Lee Award
The Harper Lee Award for Alabama's Distinguished Writer of the Year is an annual award recognizing a writer who was born in Alabama or has spent their formative years there. It is named after Harper Lee, whose ''To Kill A Mockingbird'' has sold over 30 million copies. The Harper Lee Award was established in 1998 and was first awarded to Albert Murray. Recipients * 1998 — Albert Murray * 1999 — Madison Jones * 2000 — Helen Norris * 2001 — Sena Jeter Naslund * 2002 — Mary Ward Brown * 2003 — Rodney Jones * 2004 — Sonia Sanchez * 2005 — Andrew Highway * 2006 — Wayne Greenhaw * 2007 — William Cobb * 2008 — Rebecca Gilman * 2009 — Rick Bragg * 2010 — Carolyn Haines * 2011 — Winston Groom * 2012 — Fannie Flagg * 2013 — Gay Talese * 2014 — Mark Childress * 2015 — Hank Lazer * 2016 — E. O. Wilson * 2017 — Brad Watson * 2018 — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers * 2019 — Daniel Wallace * 2020 — Patti Callahan Henry * 2021 — Angela Johnso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troy University
Troy University is a public university in Troy, Alabama, United States. It was founded in 1887 as Troy State Normal School within the Alabama State University System, and is now the flagship university of the Troy University System. It was one of about 180 "normal schools" founded by state governments in the 19th century to train teachers for the rapidly growing public common schools. Some closed but most steadily expanded their role and became state colleges in the early 20th century and state universities in the late 20th century. Troy University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS) to award associate, baccalaureate, master's, education specialist, and doctoral degrees. In August 2005, Troy State University, Montgomery; Troy State University, Phenix City; Troy State University, Dothan; and Troy State University (main campus) all merged under one accreditation to become Troy University. Prior to the merger, each ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chatham News
''The Chatham News'' is a weekly newspaper based in Siler City, North Carolina and serving Chatham County, North Carolina. History Started in 1924, the newspaper has been family-owned for much of its history. E.A. Resch bought the newspaper, along with '' The Chatham Record'' of Pittsboro, in 1939. His son Alan Resch joined ''The Chatham News'' in 1962 and was replaced by wife Mary Resch as editor and publisher when he died in 2016. On October 25, 2018 ''The Chatham News'' announced that The Chatham News Publishing Company, Inc. had sold the newspapers to The Chatham Media Group LLC. The group included former '' Sanford Herald'' publisher Bill Horner III, Kirk Bradley, and Chris Ehrenfeld. Bradley and Ehrenfeld cared about the papers being locally owned. The newspaper was sold to '' North State Journal'' owner North State Media in May 2023. See also * List of newspapers published in North Carolina There have been newspapers in North Carolina since the '' North-Carolina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Book Prize
Southern Book Prize (formerly the SEBA Book Award and SIBA Book Award) is a literary award given by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA). It was first awarded in 1999.Summer, Bob (1999). "SEBA presents first book awards." ''Publishers Weekly'', 246(20), 24. 1 Color Photograph. Last accessed Oct. 8, 2012. Nominated books must be Southern in nature or by a Southern author, have been published the previous year, and have been nominated by a SIBA-member bookstore or one of their customers. Voting categories include fiction, Nonfiction, poetry, cooking and children's literature. In 2016, the award was renamed the Southern Book Prize and awarded in honor of southern writer Pat Conroy, who died in March 2016. The first awards were given in 1999. From 1999 through 2007 winners were chosen by popular vote through an online voting mechanism. Starting in 2008, winners were chosen from the list of finalists by a jury of SIBA booksellers. Since 2019 candidates have been nominat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Greenville News
''The Greenville News'' is a daily morning newspaper published in Greenville, South Carolina. After ''The State (newspaper), The State'' in Columbia and Charleston's ''The Post and Courier'', it is the third largest paper in South Carolina. History ''The Greenville News'' started off as a four-page publication in 1874 by A.M. Speights. For a one-year subscription, the cost was eight dollars. After five different owners and many editors, the Peace family under the leadership of Bony Hampton Peace bought the paper in 1919 from E. A. Smyth (industrialist), Ellison Adger Smyth, around the same time that Greenville was becoming known as "The Textile Center of the South." The Peace family acquired the evening paper ''The Piedmont'' in 1927. In 1965 both papers helped to form Multimedia (media company), Multimedia Inc. Then in 1995, the smaller afternoon paper and the larger morning paper merged to become ''The News-Piedmont.'' In December 1985 Gannett purchased Multimedia, changing th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacksonville State University
Jacksonville State University (JSU or Jax State) is a public university in Jacksonville, Alabama, United States. Founded in 1883, Jacksonville State offers programs of study in six academic schools leading to bachelor's degree, bachelor's, master's degree, master's, education specialist, and doctorate degrees in addition to certificate programs and continuing education opportunities. The university was founded as Jacksonville State Normal School, and in 1930, the name changed to Jacksonville State Teachers College, and again in 1957, to Jacksonville State College. The university began operating under its current name in 1966. JSU currently has an enrollment of more than 9,000 students, with nearly 500 faculty members (more than 300 of whom are full-time). It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). History Jacksonville State Normal School The university was founded as Jacksonville State Normal School, a "class A" normal school, it was cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
