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The remembered gate : memoirs by Alabama writers / edited by Jay Lamar and Jeanie Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Deep South books
- A Deep South book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American--Alabama--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Alabama--Biography.
- Alabama.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 267 pages : portraits ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- This collection of reflective essays-all exploring themes of artistic self-discovery and regional awareness-showcases 19 nationally known writers who have roots in Alabama.
- Contents:
- Coming through the fire / C. Eric Lincoln
- What do you do for the place? / Patricia Foster
- The truth the heart knows / Fannie Flagg
- Swing low: a memoir / Mary Ward Brown
- The humanistic Black heritage of Alabama / James Haskins
- Growing up a poet in Alabama / Andrew Glaze
- Stalking an early life / Helen Norris
- Learning to swim / Wayne Greenhaw
- The other sun of God / Nanci Kincaid
- The ghosts in my grandmother's attic / Robert Inman
- Alabama breakdown / Andrew Hudgins
- The first place / Phyllis Alesia Perry
- A half mile of road in north Alabama / Rodney Jones
- When the Opry was in Ryman and we still believed in God / William Cobb
- The heart of Dixie / Frye Gaillard
- Thunderhoof and the mantel clock / Sena Jeter Naslund
- Growing up in Alabama: a meal in four courses, beginning with dessert / Charles Gaines
- Coming home / Judith Hillman Paterson
- Epilogue: regional particulars and universal implications / Albert Murray
- Afterword / Mark Kennedy.
- ISBN:
- 0817311238
- OCLC:
- 47208430
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