Southern Selves: From Mark Twain and Eudora Welty to Maya Angelou and Kaye Gibbons a Collection of Autobiographical Writing

by James Watkins and James H. Watkins

Book Overview

The memoirist seek to capture not just a self but an entire world, and in this marvelous anthology thirty-one of the South's finest writers--writers like Kaye Gibbons and Reynolds Price, Eudora Welty and Harry Crews, Richard Wright and Dorothy Allison--make their intensely personal contributions to a vibrant collective picture of southern life.

In the hands of these superb artists, the South's rich tradition of storytelling is brilliantly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067978103X
• ISBN13: 9780679781035
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.0"