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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 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 Johnson Angela Johnson may also refer to: *Angela Johnson (basketb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harper Lee
Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist best known for her 1960 novel ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. It won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Lee has received numerous accolades and honorary degrees, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 which was awarded for her contribution to literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book '' In Cold Blood'' (1966). Capote was the basis for the character Dill Harris in ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. The plot and characters of ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936 when she was 10. The novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as depicted through the eyes of two children. It was inspired by racist attitudes in her hometown of Monroeville, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Groom
Winston Francis Groom Jr. (March 23, 1943 – September 17, 2020) was an American novelist and non-fiction writer. He is best known for his novel '' Forrest Gump'' (1986), which became a cultural phenomenon after being adapted as a 1994 film of the same name, starring Tom Hanks. After the film was released, gaining a high box office and winning numerous awards, Groom's novel sold more than one million copies worldwide. Groom wrote a sequel, '' Gump and Co.'', published in 1995. His last novel was ''El Paso'' (2011). He also wrote a total of fifteen non-fiction works on such varied subjects as the American Civil War and World War I, including five multiple biographies. Early life and education Groom was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Ruth (Knudsen), an English teacher, and Winston Francis Groom, a lawyer at the Pentagon. He and his family returned to Mobile, Alabama where the senior Groom practiced law. Winston Groom was raised in Mobile County, Alabama, where he atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Establishments In Alabama
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (''Very strong''). With up to 4, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alabama Literature
Alabama literature includes the prose fiction, poetry, films and biographies that are set in or created by those from the US state of Alabama. This literature officially began emerging from the state circa 1819 with the recognition of the region as a state. Like other forms of literature from the South, Alabama literature often discusses issues of race, stemming from the history of the slave society, the American Civil War, the Reconstruction era and Jim Crow laws, and the US Civil Rights Movement. Alabama literature was inspired by the latter's significant campaigns and events in the state, such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Selma to Montgomery marches. Some of the most notable pieces of literature from this region include Harper Lee’s novel ''To Kill A Mockingbird'', Winston Groom’s novel ''Forrest Gump'', and Fannie Flagg’s novel '' Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe''. The biographies of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. are also highly significant. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Literary Awards
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Johnson (writer)
Angela Johnson (born June 18, 1961) is an American writer of children's books and poetry, with over 40 books to her credit since beginning her writing career in 1989. Her children's picture books are simple yet poetic stories about African-American families, friendships, and common childhood experiences such as moving. Her books for older children revolve around similar themes but also explore deeper issues such as teen pregnancy and divorce. Her characters are realistic and the treatment sensitive, positive, and hopeful. Many of Johnson's books have connections to Alabama and Alabama history. Early life Johnson was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, and grew up in Windham, Ohio, with her brother and parents. She began writing in the fourth grade when her mother gave her a diary for Christmas.Hinton, M. (2018, June). Sweet Here and Now: 2018 Margaret Edwards Award winner Angela Johnson just wants to tell a good story. ''School Library Journal'', ''64''(6), 28+. Encouraged to write by her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Wallace (author)
Daniel Wallace (born 1959) is an American author. He is best known for his 1998 novel ''Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions''. His other books include ''Ray in Reverse'' and ''The Watermelon King''. His stories have also been published in a number of anthologies and magazines, including ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.''''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: 19th Annual Collection'' by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, Gavin Grant, Macmillan, 2006, page 241. Life Wallace was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and he has three sisters. He attended Emory University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying English and philosophy. His first job was as a veterinary assistant cleaning cages. Wallace did not graduate from college until May 2008, instead taking a job with a trading company in Nagoya, Japan. He currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his wife and son.''Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic'' edited by F. Brett Cox and Andy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (born 1967) is an American poet and novelist, and a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. She has published five collections of poetry and a novel. Her 2020 collection ''The Age of Phillis'' reexamines the life of American poet Phillis Wheatley, based on years of archival research; it was long-listed for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry, and she was the recipient in 2021 of a United States Artists fellowship. She published her debut novel, ''The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois'', in 2021. Biography Jeffers was born in Kokomo, Indiana, and raised Catholic in Durham, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia. Her mother's family is from Eatonton, Georgia; her father's family, she recounted, was "black bourgeois and fair skinned" (her father, Lance Jeffers, was also a poet), and they were not happy when he married a working-class, darker-skinned woman. Jeffers wrote about her family background in ''Red Clay Suite'' (2007), and said in an intervie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Watson (writer)
Wilton Brad Watson (July 24, 1955July 8, 2020) was an American author and academic. Originally from Mississippi, he worked and lived in Alabama, Florida, California, Boston, and Wyoming. He was a professor at the University of Wyoming until his death. Watson published four books – two novels and two collections of short stories – to critical acclaim. Early life Watson was born in Meridian, Mississippi on July 24, 1955. He was the second of three sons of Robert Earl Watson and Bonnie Clay. He married his high school sweetheart and had a son together before twelfth grade. They moved to Los Angeles after finishing high school, and worked as a garbage truck driver while aspiring to become an actor. He subsequently returned home to Mississippi after his older brother, Clay, died in a car accident. At the urging of his family, he went back into education, attending Meridian Junior College and then Mississippi State University, where he graduated with a degree in English. Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hank Lazer
Hank Lazer (b. San Jose, California) is an American poet and critic who teaches at the University of Alabama. Biography Lazer received an A.B. in English from Stanford University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees the University of Virginia. He has been a professor of English at the University of Alabama since 1977. From 1991 to 1997, he was Assistant Dean for Humanities and Fine Arts; from 1997 to 2006 he was Assistant Vice President for Undergraduate Programs and Services; and since 2006 he serves as Associate Provost for Academic Affairs. He is also the director of Creative Campus, a university-wide program designed to "expand arts experiences for the community." A noted poet in his own right, he is responsible for bringing renowned writers to the Tuscaloosa campus, including Robert Creeley and Neil Gaiman. Literary work Lazer has published fourteen books of poetry since 1992. In addition, he published two volumes of criticism, ''Opposing Poetries: Volume One—Issues and Institution ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Childress
Mark Childress (born 1957 in Monroeville, Alabama) is an American novelist and Southern writer. Life Childress grew up in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, and Louisiana. He graduated from the University of Alabama, where he was a member of the Mallet Assembly. In 1978 Childress was a reporter for ''The Birmingham News'', Features Editor of ''Southern Living'' magazine, and Regional Editor of ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution''. He was formerly a resident of Dallas and New York, and lives in Key West, Florida . Articles and reviews by Childress have appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Times'', ''San Francisco Chronicle'', the ''Saturday Review'', the ''Chicago Tribune'', ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', ''Travel and Leisure'', and other national and international publications. He has also written three picture books for children: ''Joshua and Bigtooth'',Childress, M. (1992). ''Joshua and Bigtooth''. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ''Joshua and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gay Talese
Gaetano "Gay" Talese (; born February 7, 1932) is an American writer. As a journalist for ''The New York Times'' and ''Esquire'' magazine during the 1960s, Talese helped to define contemporary literary journalism and is considered, along with Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion and Hunter S. Thompson, one of the pioneers of New Journalism. Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra. Early life Born in Ocean City, New Jersey, the son of Italian immigrant parents, Talese graduated from Ocean City High School in 1949. Writer origins High school Talese's entry into writing was entirely happenstance, and the unintended consequence of the then high school sophomore's attempt to gain more playing time for the baseball team. The assistant coach had the duty of telephoning in the chronicle of each game to the local newspaper and when he complained he was too busy to do it properly, the head coach gave Talese the duty. As Talese recalls in his 1996 memoir ''Origins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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