Village Writers Group records, 1978-1997.
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Statham, Frances Patton
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Harris, Joe Frank
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Emory University. Community Education Services.
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Woods, Stuart
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The Village Writers Group was organized in 1978 and incorporated in 1980. The group began as an informal extension of a community education course at Emory University entitled "Unblocking Writer's Block," and met initially in various locations in the Emory Village, a commercial area of shops and restaurants adjacent to the Emory campus. Local writers, both published and unpublished, have met regularly for programs, critique, and support. Participants in the Village Writers Group have included in...
Shulman, Neil
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Diehl, William
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Conroy, Patricia
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Pat Conroy was born on October 26, 1945, in Atlanta, Georgia, to a young career military officer from Chicago and a Southern beauty from Alabama, whom Pat often credits for his love of language. He was the first of seven children. His father was a violent and abusive man, a man whose biggest mistake, Conroy once said, was allowing a novelist to grow up in his home. Since his family had to move many times to different military bases around the South, Conroy changed schools frequently, finally att...
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987
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Erskine Preston Caldwell was born in White Oak, Coweta County, Georgia, the son of Ira Sylvester Caldwell, a minister, and Caroline Bell, a teacher. Caldwell much later believed that being brought up as a minister's son in the Deep South was "my good fortune in life," for his family's frequent moves to different congregations in the region gave him an intimate knowledge of the people, localities, and ways of life that would inform his fiction and documentary writing. As a youth he observed, with...
Siddons, Anne Rivers
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Born in 1936, Siddons was raised in Fairburn, Georgia. Aftr graduating from Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now Auburn University, in 1958, she took a staff position with "Atlanta" magazine. She signed a book contract with Doubleday and her first book, "John Chancellor Makes Me Cry," was published in 1975. She has since published eleven novels with contemporary Southern settings and a guidebook to Atlanta. From the description of Papers, 1976-1993. (Auburn University). WorldCat record...