Appalachia and beyond : conversations with writers from the Mountain South / edited by John Lang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lang, John, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Appalachian Region, Southern--History and criticism.

American literature.

Authors, American--20th century--Interviews.

Authors, American.

Intellectual life.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts.

Southern Appalachian Region.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Appalachian Region, Southern--In literature.

Appalachian Region, Southern.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Intellectual life.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xviii, 362 pages : portraits ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2006]

Contents:

James Still : daring to look in the well / interview by Jim Wayne Miller (1983)

Fred Chappell : the way it is / interview by Shelby Stephenson (1984)

Lee Smith : every kind of ritual / interview by Dorothy Hill (1985)

John Ehle : the mountains and beyond / interview by Wilma Dykeman (1986)

Jim Wayne Miller : in quest of the brier / interview by Loyal Jones (1988)

Wilma Dykeman : the rooted heart and the ranging intellect / interview by Richard Marius (1989)

Robert Morgan : imagination, memory, and region / interview by William Harmon (1990)

Mary Lee Settle : wrestling with the angel / interview by Brian Rosenberg (1990)

Charles Wright : language, landscape, and the idea of God / interview by David Young (1991)

David Huddle : life into art / interview by George Garrett (1992)

George Ella Lyon : voices rooted in place / interview by Jeff Daniel Marion (1994)

Jeff Daniel Marion : fishing in the language / interview by Stephen Marion (1994)

Meredith Sue Willis : circling out, centering in / interview by Karen Morgan (1995)

Gurney Norman : water flowing from high ground / interview by Patricia Beaver and Sandra L. Ballard (1996)

Jo Carson : the wealth of story / interview by Pat Arnow (1997)

Denise Giardina : resurrecting the dead, recognizing the human / interview by Thomas Douglass (1998)

George Scarbrough : the county and beyond / interview by J. W. Williamson (1999)

Lisa Alther : healing laughter / interview by Wayne J. Pond (2000)

Kathryn Stripling Byer : singing the mountains / interview by Lee Smith (2001)

Michael McFee : getting at the secrets of things / interview by Michael Chitwood (2002)

Ron Rash : the power of blood-memory / interview by Joyce Compton Brown (2003).

Notes:

Original interviews conducted during Emory & Henry College's annual literary festivals and published in the Iron Mountain review.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1572335351

OCLC:

62302283

Publisher Number:

9781572335356