The Fable of the Southern Writer

by Lewis P. Simpson

Book Overview

With a breadth and depth unsurpassed by any other cultural historian of the South, Lewis Simpson examines the writing of southerners Thomas Jefferson, John Randolph, Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Arthur Crew Inman, William Styron, and Walker Percy. Simpson offers challenging essays of easy erudition blessedly free of academic jargon.... They] do not propose to support an overall thesis,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807129151
• ISBN13: 9780807129159
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.2"