The southern voice videotapes, 1984.

Haley, Alex, 1921-1992

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Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. Haley's first book was The Auto...

WPBA (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)

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Kay, Terry

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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...

Bottoms, David

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David Bottoms was born in Canton, Georgia, in 1949. He was educated at Mercer University, West Georgia College, and Florida State University, where he received his PhD. His first book, SHOOTING RATS AT THE BIBB COUNTY DUMP, was chosen by Robert Penn Warren for the 1979 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. He has followed this early success with numerous poetry collections as well as two novels. In 2000, Governor Roy Barnes appointed him Georgia Poet Laureate. He currently lives...

Watkins, Floyd C.

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Floyd C. Watkins was born 19 April 1920, and grew up in Ball Ground, Ga. He attended Georgia Southern College (B.S., 1946), Emory University (M.A., 1947), and Vanderbilt University (Ph. D., 1952). Watkins began his teaching career at Emory in 1949, and was named Charles Howard Candler Professor of American Literature. He is the author of more than one hundred books and articles primarily about Southern authors, Southern literature, and life in the South. From the description of Floyd...

Woods, Stuart

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Sellers, Bettie M.

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"Bettie Sellers lives and writes poetry in Young Harris, a small college town in the mountains of north Georgia. She is best known for her poems about life in southern Appalachia. Although Sellers was reared in the Piedmont region, near Griffin, her grandmother grew up in north Georgia's Nacoochee Valley. This heritage stimulated Sellers's interest in Appalachia. After earning a B.A. from LaGrange College in 1958 and an M.A. from the University of Georgia in 1966, she accepted a position as prof...

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...