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Writers of the Deep South
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Faulkner: A Biography (Southern Icons Series)Faulkner: A Biography (Southern Icons Series) by Joseph Blotner
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The authoritative biographer of the premiere Southern writer
William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha CountryWilliam Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country by Cleanth Brooks
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Cleanth Brooks is a renowned Southern critic. Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional area in northern Mississippi, Faulkner's home area and setting for most of his works.
William Faulkner: Novels 1926-1929: Soldiers' Pay / Mosquitoes / Flags in the Dust / The Sound and the Fury (Library of America)William Faulkner: Novels 1926-1929: Soldiers' Pay / Mosquitoes / Flags in the Dust / The Sound and the Fury (Library of America) by William Faulkner
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Faulkner's collections fit into several volumes of the Library of America.
Collected Stories of William FaulknerCollected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner
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Notice who collected them
A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/Light in August (Oprah's Book Club)A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/Light in August (Oprah's Book Club) by William Faulkner
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A collection of three of his best novels
Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion (Modern Library)Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion (Modern Library) by William Faulkner
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Another series featuring an important family in Faulkner's mythic story.
The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions)The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions) by William Faulkner
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A study guide
The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (Cambridge Companions to Literature)The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
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William Faulkner and Southern HistoryWilliam Faulkner and Southern History by Joel Williamson
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The Southern history of the decades following the South's defeat in the Civil War gave Faulkner rich material for his mythic county and its people
William Faulkner Reads: The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech and Selections from As I Lay Dying, A Fable, and The Old ManWilliam Faulkner Reads: The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech and Selections from As I Lay Dying, A Fable, and The Old Man by William Faulkner
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One of a dozen or so American writers to win the Nobel Prized in Literature.
Flannery O'Connor: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)Flannery O'Connor: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) by Melissa Simpson
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A biography to get you started..
Three by Flannery O'Connor (Signet Classics)Three by Flannery O'Connor (Signet Classics) by Flannery O'Connor
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A collection of three of her short novels
Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays & Letters (Library of America)Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays & Letters (Library of America) by Flannery O'Connor
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A representation of O'Connor in Library of America
The Complete StoriesThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
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I can say I have read every story by O'Connor, one of my favorite writers.
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'ConnorThe Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor
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The Heart Set Free: Sin And Redemption In The Gospels, Augustine, Dante, And Flannery O'connorThe Heart Set Free: Sin And Redemption In The Gospels, Augustine, Dante, And Flannery O'connor by Kim Paffenroth
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Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction (Southern Literary Studies)Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction (Southern Literary Studies) by Farrell O'Gorman
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American Gargoyles: Flannery O'Connor and the Medieval GrotesqueAmerican Gargoyles: Flannery O'Connor and the Medieval Grotesque by Anthony Di Renzo
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O'Connor is noted for her "grotesque" characters, spiritually and emotionally
Desire, Violence, & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy (Southern Literary Studies)Desire, Violence, & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy (Southern Literary Studies) by Gary M. Ciuba
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Typical topics of great Southern writers.
The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of MedicineThe Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
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Percy earned a degree in medicine and never practiced it.
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do With the OtherThe Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do With the Other by Walker Percy
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Percy's existential non-fiction
The Second Coming: A NovelThe Second Coming: A Novel by Walker Percy
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The MoviegoerThe Moviegoer by Walker Percy
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One of his existential novels
Signposts in a Strange Land: EssaysSignposts in a Strange Land: Essays by Walker Percy
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At the Crossroads: Ethical and Religious Themes in the Writings of Walker PercyAt the Crossroads: Ethical and Religious Themes in the Writings of Walker Percy by John F. Desmond
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A critical study
Walker Percy: The Last Catholic Novelist (Southern Literary Studies)Walker Percy: The Last Catholic Novelist (Southern Literary Studies) by Kieran Quinlan
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Eudora Welty: A BiographyEudora Welty: A Biography by Suzanne Marrs
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Eudora Welty : Complete Novels: The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, The Optimist's Daughter (Library of America)Eudora Welty : Complete Novels: The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, The Optimist's Daughter (Library of America) by Eudora Welty
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Essential Welty CD: Why I Live at the P.O., A Memory, Powerhouse and Petrified ManEssential Welty CD: Why I Live at the P.O., A Memory, Powerhouse and Petrified Man
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You need to hear an authentic Southern voice. What you get in movies is often caricature. Matthew McConnaughy is authentic.
Thirteen StoriesThirteen Stories by Eudora Welty
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She is really more noted for her short stories than novels.
Katherine Anne Porter: A LifeKatherine Anne Porter: A Life by Joan Givner
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne PorterThe Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
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What she is known for
All the King's MenAll the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
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Robert Penn Warren not only wrote a novel which won the Pulitzer Prize, he was also a fine literary critic.
Cormac McCarthy (Twayne's United States Authors Series)Cormac McCarthy (Twayne's United States Authors Series) by Robert J. Jarrett
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The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library)The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library) by Cormac Mccarthy
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The premiere living Southern writer
The RoadThe Road by Cormac Mccarthy
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No Country for Old Men (Vintage International)No Country for Old Men (Vintage International) by Cormac McCarthy
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currently playing at your local theater
Child of GodChild of God by Cormac McCarthy
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The Late Modernism of Cormac McCarthy: (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)The Late Modernism of Cormac McCarthy: (Contributions to the Study of World Literature) by David Holloway
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Cormac McCarthy's Catholic sensibilty.(The Road)(Book review): An article from: National Catholic ReporterCormac McCarthy's Catholic sensibilty.(The Road)(Book review): An article from: National Catholic Reporter by Tom Ryan
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Note the number of Catholic writers in the South