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Townsend Prize For Fiction
The Townsend Prize for Fiction is awarded every two years to the best piece of literary fiction written and published while the author lived in Georgia. Past award winners include Alice Walker, Terry Kay, Ha Jin, Philip Lee Williams, Ferrol Sams, Kathryn Stockett, Mary Hood, and Judson Mitcham, among others. The Prize was started in 1981 to honor the legacy of Jim Townsend, founding editor of ''Atlanta'' magazine—the model of the modern city magazine—and mentor to a generation of iconic Southern writers like Pat Conroy and Anne Rivers Siddons. Administered since the 1990s by Georgia Perimeter College, now Georgia State University Perimeter College, and The Chattahoochee Review in 2021 stewardship of the Prize passed to thAtlanta Writers Club (AWC. The AWC was founded in 1914 as a social and educational organization to teach the craft and business of writing, support local writers, and advance the cause of literature and literacy in the Southeast. Now a 1,400-member communit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celestine Sibley
Celestine Sibley (May 23, 1914 – August 15, 1999) was a famous American newspaper reporter, syndicated columnist, and novelist in Atlanta, Georgia, for nearly sixty years. Biography Sibley was born in Holley, Florida. She graduated from high school in Mobile, Alabama, and began her journalistic career writing for the ''Mobile Press-Register'' and the ''Pensacola News Journal''. Sibley gained fame as an award-winning reporter, editor, and beloved columnist for the ''Atlanta Constitution'' from 1941 to 1999. According to the ''New Georgia Encyclopedia'', "Sibley was one of the most popular and long-running columnists for the Constitution, and her well-written and poignant essays on Southern culture made her an icon in the South." In addition to her column, she covered Georgia politics along with many high-profile court cases. She also wrote 25 books, both nonfiction and fiction, including mystery novels. She covered the Georgia General Assembly as a reporter from 1958 to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Kilgo
James Kilgo (1941-2002) was an American essayist and novelist, known for writing about nature. He was a professor at the University of Georgia. Early life and education Kilgo was born June 27, 1941, in Darlington, South Carolina to John Simpson Kilgo and Caroline Lawton. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Wofford College in 1963, then a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in American Literature from Tulane University in 1965 and 1972 respectively. Career In 1967, Kilgo began teaching at the University of Georgia, where he remained until his retirement in 1999. He released his debut book, an essay collection titled ''Deep Enough for Ivorybills'', with Algonquin Books in 1988, followed by six other non-fiction and fiction texts, including ''Inheritance of Horses'' (1994), ''The Blue Wall'' (1996), ''Daughter of My People'' (1998), ''The Hand-Carved Creche and other Christmas Memories'' (1999), ''The Colors of Africa'' (2003), and ''Ossabaw'' (2004), the last of which were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanjena Sathian
Sanjena Anshu Sathian is an American novelist and journalist. Her debut novel, ''Gold Diggers'', was published by Penguin Press in 2021. Early life and education Sathian was raised in Georgia by a Malayali father and Kannadiga mother, both immigrants from South India. She grew up in metro Atlanta and attended The Westminster Schools. In high school, she competed in policy debate, winning the national championship as a senior. She attended Yale College, graduating in 2013 with a B.A. in English. She was a recipient of a 2017 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. The fellowship supported her studies at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, from which she graduated in 2019 with an MFA in creative writing. Career After graduating from college, Sathian worked as a technology journalist in San Francisco before moving to Mumbai to work as a foreign correspondent. Sathian's debut novel, ''Gold Diggers'', was published by Penguin Press on April 6, 2021. It was sold to Penguin Press a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Mullen (author)
Thomas Mullen (born 1974) is an American novelist. Biography Mullen was born in Rhode Island. He graduated from Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and Oberlin College in Ohio. He is married, has two children, and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Bibliography * 2006 '' The Last Town on Earth'' * 2010 ''The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers'' * 2011 ''The Revisionists'' ('' Mulholland Books US'' and '' Mulholland Books UK'') * 2015 '' Darktown'' * 2017 ''Lightning Men'' * 2020 ''Midnight Atlanta'' * 2023 ''Blind Spots'' Awards ''The Last Town on Earth'' received the 2007 James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. It was recognized by ''USA Today'' as the "Best Début Novel" of the year and the ''Chicago Tribune'' as one of their "Books of the Year". In 2021, ''Midnight Atlanta'' was shortlisted in the Gold Dagger category at the Crime Writers' Association The Crime Writers' Association (CWA) is a specialist authors' organisation in the United Kingdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Help
''The Help'' is a historical fiction novel by American author Kathryn Stockett published by Penguin Books in 2009. The story is about African Americans working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960s. A ''USA Today'' article called it one of the "summer sleeper hits". An early review in ''The New York Times'' notes Stockett's "affection and intimacy buried beneath even the most seemingly impersonal household connections", and says the book is a "button-pushing, soon to be wildly popular novel". ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' said of the book: "This heartbreaking story is a stunning début from a gifted talent." Stockett began writing the novel — her first — after the September 11 attacks. It took her five years to complete and was rejected by 60 literary agents, over a period of three years, before agent Susan Ramer agreed to represent Stockett. ''The Help'' has since been published in 35 countries and three languages. As of August 2011, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett is an American novelist. She is known for her 2009 debut novel, ''The Help'', which is about African-American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s. Career Stockett worked in magazine publishing while living in New York City before publishing her first novel, which she began writing after the September 11 attacks. ''The Help'' took her five years to complete, and the book was rejected by 60 literary agents before agent Susan Ramer agreed to represent Stockett. ''The Help'' has since been published in 3 languages. As of August 2012, it has sold ten million copies and spent more than 100 weeks on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. ''The Help'' climbed best seller charts a few months after it was released. Personal life Stockett grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she moved to New York City. She lived there for 16 years and worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Kay
Terry Winter Kay (February 10, 1938 – December 12, 2020) was an American author, whose novels examined life in the American South. His most well-known book, ''To Dance with the White Dog'', was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Three of Kay's books became movies. Early life and career Born in Royston, Georgia to T.H. and Viola Winn Kay, Kay was the eleventh of twelve children. He graduated from LaGrange College in 1959, majoring in social science. After college he sold insurance, then found work as a copy boy and then writer for the ''Decatur-DeKalb News.'' He moved to the ''Atlanta Journal'' as a sports writer and film and theater critic. In 1973 he left the ''Journal'' to work in advertising, and in 1977 he moved to work at Oglethorpe Power. By the time he left in 1989 to devote his full time to writing, he had become Oglethorpe's vice president for public relations. At the urging of his friend, writer Pat Conroy, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bridegroom (short Story Collection)
''The Bridegroom'' is a collection of twelve short stories by Chinese-American author Ha Jin. The stories are set in Muji City in contemporary China, the same provincial city that served as the setting for his novel ''Waiting''. Contents "Saboteur," "The Bridegroom," and "After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town" were subsequently included in ''The Best American Short Stories ''The Best American Short Stories'' is a yearly anthology that's part of ''The Best American Series'' published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the ''BASS'' has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the ...'' series. References External links* ttp://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780375724930=cse ''The Bridegroom'' by Ha Jin - Powell's Books {{DEFAULTSORT:Bridegroom American short story collections 2000 short story collections Short story collections by Ha Jin Short stories set in China Pantheon Books books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ha Jin
Jin Xuefei (; born February 21, 1956) is a Chinese American poet and novelist who uses the pen name Ha Jin (). The name ''Ha'' comes from his favorite city, Harbin. His poetry is associated with the Misty Poetry movement. Early life, education, and immigration Ha Jin was born in Liaoning, China. His father was a military officer; at thirteen, Jin joined the People's Liberation Army during the Cultural Revolution. Jin began to educate himself in Chinese literature and high school curriculum at sixteen. He left the army when he was nineteen as he entered Heilongjiang University, later earning a bachelor's degree in English studies. This was followed by a master's degree in Anglo-American literature at Shandong University. Jin grew up in the chaos of early communist China. He was on a scholarship at Brandeis University when the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre occurred. The Chinese government's forcible crackdown hastened his decision to emigrate to the United States, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judson Mitcham
Judson Mitcham (born 1948) is an American author and poet best known for being the state of Georgia's tenth official poet laureate between 2012 and 2019. He is the only writer to win the Townsend Prize for Fiction twice. His poetry is featured regularly in publications such as ''Harpers'', ''The Georgia Review'', '' The Chattahoochee Review'', ''The Gettysburg Review'', and ''Southern Poetry Review''. In 2002, Mitcham began teaching writing workshops as a part-time professor at Mercer University. He also directed the Summer Writers' Institute at Emory University. Life and career Judson Cofield Mitcham was born in 1948 in Monroe, Georgia to Wilson Mitcham, who worked at the local mill, and Myrtle, who worked for the New Deal Seed Loan Program. When he was 16, Judson Mitcham was involved in a car accident while driving a Chevrolet Corvair, which caused the death of one of his friends. Thinking about this incident was among the things that fueled Mitcham to write. Mitcham studied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel '' The Color Purple''."National Book Awards – 1983" National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 15, 2012. (With essays by Anna Clark and Tarayi Jones from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry. Walker, born in rural Georgia, overcame challenges such as childhood injury and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Durban
Rosa Pam Durban (born March 4, 1947, in Aiken, South Carolina) is an American novelist and short story writer. Life Durban graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and from the University of Iowa with an M.F.A. in 1979. She wrote for the ''Atlanta Gazette'' from 1974 to 1975. She taught at the State University of New York at Geneseo, Murray State University, and Ohio University. She was also founding co-editor, along with David Bottoms of ''Five Points.'' She taught at Georgia State University from 1986 to 2001 and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2001. Her work has appeared in ''Blackbird Review'', '' Tri-Quarterly'', '' Crazyhorse'', the ''Georgia Review'', ''The Southern Review'', ''Epoch'', ''The New Virginia Review'', and ''The Ohio Review''. Awards * 2001 Lillian Smith Book Award for ''So Far Back'' * 1994 Townsend Prize for ''The Laughing Place'' * 1987 Whiting Award The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |