Along with a great Greenville writer picture: Walker Percy, Charles Bell, Ellen Douglas, and Shelby Foote.
Ellen Douglas, a Mississippi-born writer whose novels explored the uneasy, sometimes surprisingly tender alliances between black and white women in the American South, died on Wednesday at her home in Jackson, Miss….
Throughout her career, Ms. Douglas was praised for her unflinching yet sympathetic characterizations, and for her ear for the nuances of Southern speech as it varied across the races and the sexes.
She was also known as a fluid stylist. Because much of her work was set in Mississippi, critics reflexively compared it to Faulkner, an analogy that caused her no small irritation over time. She herself preferred to cite the Czech novelist Milan Kundera as an abiding influence.
That’s a helluva photo. I have never seen that before. Thanks for posting.
Awesome author. Great photo.
The library auxiliary here failed to persuade the library board to name the Northside Library in her honor after gathering a petition. Most of the users of this branch are African American students from the public schools across the street. The late black weekly newspaper publisher, Charles Tisdale, won the honor.
The author used the Welty Branch downtown and the board named the public meeting room after her.