Whose novels are set in the deep South, Mameve Medwed or Carson McCullers?
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Mameve Medwed Mameve Medwed is an American novelist. Born and raised in Bangor, Maine, she received her B.A. with honors from Simmons College and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of "Mail", "Host Family", "The End of an Error", "How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life" (for which she received a 2007 Massachusetts Book Awards Fiction Honor), and "Of Men and Their Mothers".
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Carson McCullers Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter", explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the U.S. South. Her other novels have similar themes and most are set in the deep South.
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Gone with the Wind (novel) Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty following Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea". This historical novel features a "Bildungsroman" or coming-of-age story, with the title taken from a poem written by Ernest Dowson.
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Sallie M. Mills Johnson Sallie M. Mills Johnson (born March 6, 1862) was an author.
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David McCheyne Newell David McCheyne Newell (23 March 1898 – 1986) was an American journalist, novelist, and children's writer perhaps most famous for his books regarding early twentieth century rural life in western central Florida. In "If Nothin' Don't Happen" and "The Trouble of It Is" the fictional narrator, Billy Driggers, tells true-to-life stories about the people of Florida's Gulf Hammock (the coastal land between Cedar Key and the Withlacoochee River) and the surrounding environs during the interwar years. Earlier writings included "The Fishing and Hunting Answer Book", illustrated by Lynn Bogue Hunt, a children's book titled "American Animals", "Cougars and Cowboys" (New York. The Century Co., 1927) and numerous short stories and articles.
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Beth McKee Beth McKee is a singer/songwriter from the American South.
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Birney Imes Birney Imes (born 1951) is an American photographer. He is best known for his photographs of the American South, especially his home state of Mississippi. His work is exhibited in museums across the United States.
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Carolyn Meyer Carolyn Meyer (born June 8, 1935) is an American author of novels for children and young adults.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the début novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication. It is about a deaf man named John Singer who does not speak, and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the US state of Georgia.
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Emily Matchar Emily Matchar (born 1982) is an American journalist and author. Originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, she graduated from Harvard University in 2004. Her work has appeared in "The Atlantic", "Salon", "The Washington Post", "Time", "The New Republic", "Gourmet", and "Outside", among others. Her non-fiction book, "Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity" was a critical exploration of the cultural phenomenon of "new domesticity," the re-embrace of old-fashioned domestic arts and practices from knitting to canning to backyard chicken-raising. It was published by Simon & Schuster in 2013 and received favorable reviews from "The New Yorker", "The New Republic", and "The Washington Post", among many others, and was given 3.5 out of 4 stars by "People Magazine". She has made numerous appearances on TV and radio, including The Colbert Report, Good Morning America, MSNBC's The Cycle, NPR, and the BBC.
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The Member of the Wedding The Member of the Wedding is a 1946 novel by Southern writer Carson McCullers. It took McCullers five years to complete, although she interrupted the work for a few months to write the short novel "The Ballad of the Sad Café".
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Lucy Delaney Lucy Ann Delaney, born Lucy Berry (c. 1830 – after 1891), was an African-American author, former slave, and activist, notable for her 1891 narrative From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom. This is the only first-person account of a "freedom suit" and one of the few post-Emancipation published slave narratives.
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Laurie McBain Laurie (Lee) McBain (born October 15, 1949) is a best-selling American writer of seven historical romance novels from 1975 to 1985. Her novels "Devil's Desire" and "Moonstruck Madness" each sold over a million copies.
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Sally Ball Sara Louise "Sally" Ball is an American poet, editor, and professor. She is the author of "Annus Mirabilis" (Barrow Street Press, 2005). Her poems and essays have appeared in literary journals and magazines including "American Poetry Review," "Harvard Review", "Pleiades", "Ploughshares", "Rivendell", "Slate", "Threepenny Review", "Salmagundi", "The Southwest Review", "The Threepenny Review", "Yale Review," and the "Review of Contemporary Fiction". She earned her B.A. from Williams College, and her M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. She taught at Beloit College, and worked at Washington University’s International Writers Center. She is associate director of Four Way Books. She teaches at Arizona State University. In 1993, she married T. M. McNally; they have three children.
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The Optimist's Daughter The Optimist's Daughter is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning 1972 short novel by Eudora Welty. It concerns a woman named Laurel, who travels to New Orleans to take care of her father, Judge McKelva, after he has surgery for a detached retina. He fails to recover from the surgery, though, surrenders to his age, and dies slowly as Laurel reads to him from Dickens. Her father's second wife Fay, who is younger than Laurel, is a shrewish outsider from Texas. Her shrill response to the Judge's illness appears to accelerate his demise. Laurel and Fay are thrown together when they return the Judge to his home town of Mount Salus, Mississippi, where he will be buried. There, Laurel is immersed in the enveloping good neighborliness of the friends and family she knew before marrying and moving away to Chicago. Fay, though, has always been unwelcome and takes off for a long weekend, leaving Laurel in the big house full of memories. Laurel encounters her mother's memory, her father's life after he lost his first wife, and the complex emotions surrounding her loss and the wave of memories in which she swims. She comes to a place of understanding that Fay can never share, and leaves small town Mississippi with the memories she can carry with her.
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Richelle Mead Richelle Mead (born November 12, 1976) is a bestselling American fantasy author. She is known for the "Georgina Kincaid" series, "Vampire Academy", "Bloodlines" and the "Dark Swan" series.
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Violet Florence Martin Violet Florence Martin (11 June 1862 – 21 December 1915) was an Irish author who co-wrote a series of novels with cousin Edith Somerville under the pen name of Martin Ross in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Charles Portis Charles McColl Portis (born December 28, 1933) is an American author best known for his novels "Norwood" (1966) and the classic Western "True Grit" (1968), both adapted as films. The latter also inspired a film sequel and a made-for-TV movie sequel. A newer film adaptation of "True Grit" was released in 2010.
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Kate Fansler Kate Fansler is the main character in a series of fourteen mystery novels written by Carolyn Gold Heilbrun from 1964-2002, under the pseudonym Amanda Cross. Like Heilbrun, Fansler was a literature professor at a prestigious New York university. In the books, she is called upon to solve mysteries set in an academic context, usually involving the murder of a professor or student. Her work is accomplished through conversation with the people involved, rather than through the physically adventurous antics preferred by other fictional detectives. Midway through the series, she married her partner, district attorney Reed Amhearst, but as she tells another character in "A Trap For Fools", she "neither uses his name nor wears his ring". Echoing Heilbrun's personal views, she has little sentimental attachment to children, enjoys smoking, drinking, and fatty food, and in later books such as "Sweet Death, Kind Death", meditates on the nature of middle age and on the liberating nature of death.
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Nancy Barr Mavity Nann "Nancy" Barr Mavity (October 22, 1890 - April 23, 1959) was an American crime mystery author.
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Ashlee Adams Ashlee Adams Crews (born September 22, 1976) is an American fiction writer who typically incorporates her rural Middle Georgia roots in her works of literature.
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Ivy Ruckman Ivy Ruckman (born May 25, 1931) is an award-winning author of books for children and young adults. Her works include "Melba the Brain" and "Night of the Twisters", inspired by a 1980 tornado event, the latter of which was made into a 1996 movie. "Night of the Twisters" was a best seller. Ruckman lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.