The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature

by David Rachels, Kim Purcell, Hugh Ruppersburg

Book Overview

Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker.

This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present as well as other information pertinent to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820328766
• ISBN13: 9780820328768
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 474 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 8.9"