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Literature Of Georgia (U.S. State)
The literature of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative writers include Erskine Caldwell, Carson McCullers, Margaret Mitchell, Flannery O’Connor, Charles Henry Smith, and Alice Walker. History A Global spread of the printing press#United States and Canada, printing press began operating in Savannah, Georgia, Savannah in 1762. (Fulltext) Writers of the antebellum period included Thomas Holley Chivers (1809-1858), Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847). In 1838 in Augusta, William Tappan Thompson founded the "first literary journal in Georgia," the ''Mirror.'' Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) wrote the bestselling ''Uncle Remus'' stories, first published in 1880, a "retelling [of] African American folktales." Jean Toomer (1894-1967) wrote the novel ''Cane (novel), Cane'' after "a three-month sojourn in Sparta, Georgia, Sparta." Organizations The Georgia Writers Association formed in 1994. See also * :Writers from Georg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia (U
Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the country in the Caucasus ** Kingdom of Georgia, a medieval kingdom ** Georgia within the Russian Empire ** Democratic Republic of Georgia, established following the Russian Revolution ** Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a constituent of the Soviet Union * Related to the US state ** Province of Georgia, one of the thirteen American colonies established by Great Britain in what became the United States ** Georgia in the American Civil War, the State of Georgia within the Confederate States of America. Other places * 359 Georgia, an asteroid * New Georgia, Solomon Islands * South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Canada * Georgia Street, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada * Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada United K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |