Alabama literature

The literature of Alabama, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative authors include Augusta Jane Evans, Fannie Flagg, Harper Lee and Booker T. Washington.[1]

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Georgia-born Augusta Jane Evans (1835-1909) moved to Mobile in 1849 and wrote many popular novels that incorporated aspects of her experience in Alabama.[2]

In 1960, Harper Lee, born in Monroeville, published perhaps the most celebrated novel set in Alabama, To Kill A Mockingbird.

Winston Groom authored the novel Forrest Gump which was made into the hit movie of the same name.

Awards and events

The Alabama Library Association launched its "Alabama Author Awards" in 1957 for fiction, nonfiction and poetry; honorees have included Gail Godwin, Ann Waldron, Kathryn Tucker Windham.[3] The Alabama Writers' Forum began in 1992.[4]

See also

References
  1. Hitchcock 2001.
  2. Emory Elliott, ed. (1991). Columbia History of the American Novel. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-07360-8.
  3. Authors Awards Committee, Alabama Author Awards, Alabama Library Association, retrieved March 11, 2017 (List of winners)
  4. "About". Montgomery, AL: Alabama Writers' Forum. Retrieved March 11, 2017.

Bibliography
  • Lucian Lamar Knight, ed. (1913). "Fifty Reading Courses: Alabama". Library of Southern Literature. 16. Atlanta: Martin and Hoyt Company. p. 181+. hdl:2027/uc1.31175034925258 – via HathiTrust.
  • Erwin Craighead (1914), Literary History of Mobile, OCLC 5058844, OL 6576822M
  • Elsie Dershem (1921). "Alabama". Outline of American State Literature. Lawrence, Kansas: World Company – via Internet Archive.
  • Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Literature", Alabama; a Guide to the Deep South, American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House, pp. 130–136, hdl:2027/uc1.b4469723 – via HathiTrust
  • G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). Guide to the Study of United States Imprints. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-36761-6. (Includes information about Alabama literature)
  • William T. Going. Essays on Alabama Literature. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1975.
  • Benjamin Buford Williams (1979). A Literary History of Alabama: the Nineteenth Century. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 978-0-8386-2054-0.
  • William Stanley Hoole (1983). Alabama's Golden Literary Era. (Covers 1819-1919)
  • Philip Beidler, ed. The Art of Fiction in the Heart of Dixie: An Anthology of Alabama Writers. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1986.
  • Philip Beidler, ed. Many Voices, Many Rooms: A New Anthology of Alabama Writers. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998.
  • Lynda Brown; et al. (1998). "Antebellum Period, 1830-1860: Literature, Language and Folklore". Alabama History: an Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Press. pp. 85–90. ISBN 978-0-313-28223-2.
    • Chapter: Confederate Period, 1861-1865: Literature, p. 129
    • Chapter: Late 19th Century, 1875-1900: Literature, Language, and Folklore, pp. 209–211
    • Chapter: Early 20th Century, 1901-1945: Literature, Language, and Folklore, pp. 262–265
    • Chapter: Late 20th Century, 1946-1996: Literature, Language, and Folklore, pp. 325–331
  • Taylor, Joe, and Tina N. Jones, eds. Belles' Letters: Contemporary Fiction by Alabama Women. Livingston, Ala.: Livingston Press, 1999.
  • Bert Hitchcock (2001). "Literature of Alabama". In Joseph M. Flora; Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan (eds.). Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Louisiana State University Press. pp. 24-30. ISBN 978-0-8071-2692-9.
  • Lamar, Jay, and Jeanie Thompson, eds. The Remembered Gate: Memoirs by Alabama Writers. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.
  • Don Noble, ed. Climbing Mt. Cheaha: Emerging Alabama Writers. Livingston, Ala.: Livingston Press, 2004.
  • Walker, Sue Brannan, and J. William Chambers, eds. Whatever Remembers Us: An Anthology of Alabama Poetry. Mobile, Ala.: Negative Capability Press, 2007.
  • Don Noble, ed. A State of Laughter: Comic Fiction from Alabama. Livingston, Ala.: Livingston Press, 2008.


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