| Mojo Rising: Masters of the Art Contributor(s): Dickerson, James L. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1941644953 ISBN-13: 9781941644959 Publisher: Sartoris Literary Group OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Southern |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.68 lbs) 226 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mojo Rising: Masters of the Art An outstanding collection of stories by some of the most renowned Southern writers. Highly recommended. --Robert W. Hamblin, Professor Emeritus of English and Founding Director, Center for Faulkner Studies. Southeast Missouri State University "Mojo Rising: Masters of the Art" is a collection of short stories by 10 of the American South's greatest writers. Several of the stories are reprinted for the first time in many years. One story is an original contribution. Included in this anthology are includes stories by Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Faulkner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Tennessee Williams, Richard Wright (generally regarded as one of the top three African American writers in American history), noted Civil War historian and novelist Shelby Foote, author Willie Morris (legendary editor of Harper's Magazine in the 1960s, novelist, and journalist), American Book Award winner Ellen Gilchrist (who contributed a previously unpublished story), Elizabeth Spencer (graduate of Belhaven College and Vanderbilt University; University of Mississippi creative writing instructor; five-time winner of the O. Henry Award for short fiction), Stark Young, former drama critic for the New York Times and author of a bestselling novel "So Red the Rose," and novelist and short writer Ellen Douglas, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and in the O. Henry collection of prize stories.
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Contributor Bio(s): Dickerson, James L.: - James L. Dickerson is publisher of Sartoris Literary Group. After a career as a journalist for three Pulitzer Prize winning dailies, The Commercial Appeal of Memphis, the Clarion Ledger-Jackson Daily News, and the Delta Democrat-Times of Greenville (MS), he began a career as a full-time author writing more than 30 books, including the prize winning "Mojo Triangle: Birthplace of Country, Blues, Jazz and Rock 'n' Roll" and "Dixie's Dirty Secret." A graduate of the University of Mississippi, Dickerson is also a published short story writer and novelist. He has served as a book critic for the Toronto Star, Baltimore Sun, BookPage, and Nashville Tennessean |