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Townsend Prize For Fiction
The Townsend Prize for Fiction is awarded biennially (that is, every two years) to a writer from the U.S. state of Georgia for the best novel published during those years, by the Georgia Center for the Book and '' The Chattahoochee Review'' the literary journal of Perimeter College at Georgia State University. The award was named in honor of the founding editor of ''Atlanta'' magazine, Jim Townsend. It was first granted in 1982. Previous winners * Celestine Sibley, ''Children, My Children'' (1982) * Alice Walker, ''The Color Purple'' (1984) * Philip Lee Williams, '' The Heart of a Distant Forest'' (1986) * Mary Hood, ''And Venus Is Blue'' (1988) * Sara Flanigan, ''Alice'' (1989) * Charlie Smith, ''The Lives of the Dead'' (1990) * Ferrol Sams, ''When All the World Was Young'' (1991) * Pam Durban, ''The Laughing Place'' (1994) * JoAllen Bradham, ''Some Personal Papers'' (1996) * Judson Mitcham, ''The Sweet Everlasting'' (1998) * James Kilgo, ''Daughter of My People'' (2000) * Ha ... [...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] |
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 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG or UNC Greensboro) is a public research university in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina system. UNCG, like all members of the UNC system, is a stand- ... 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 (magazine), Crazyhorse'', the ''Georgia Review'', ''The S ... [...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 af ... [...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 Mullen has, , published five novels of varying genre. They have been well received. * 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 also 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 Writer's Association The Crime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Help
''The Help'' is a historical fiction novel by American author Kathryn Stockett and 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 11th 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 20 ... [...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 11th 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 42 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 wor ... [...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, h ... [...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 (novel), Waiting''. Contents "Saboteur," "The Bridegroom," and "After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town" were subsequently included in ''The Best American Short Stories'' series. References External links *[http://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 using the pen name Ha Jin (). ''Ha'' comes from his favorite city, Harbin. His poetry is associated with the Misty Poetry movement. Early life 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 and earned 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, and was the cause of his choice to write ... [...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] |
Ferrol Sams
Ferrol Aubrey Sams, Jr. (September 26, 1922 – January 29, 2013) was an American physician and novelist. Early life and education Sams was born to Mildred Matthews and Ferrol Aubrey Sams, Sr, in Fayette County, Georgia, United States. The younger Sams lived in a house built by his great-grandfather. On July 18, 1948, he married Helen Fletcher, who was also a physician. Sams' medical career started at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, from which he graduated in 1942. He then attended Emory University School of Medicine for a semester and then joined the United States Army Medical Corps. After serving from 1943 to 1947 and seeing action in France, Sams returned to Emory to continue his medical studies. He received his M.D. in 1949. Both Sams and his wife, Helen, practiced medicine in Fayette County until they retired in 2006. Sams was affectionately known by his family and a few close friends as "Sambo". Sams had four children—Ferrol Aubrey Sams III, James (Jim) Sams, Ellen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Center For The Book
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 Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |