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050 00 $aPS3513.R452$bZ48 1994
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100 1 $aGreen, Paul,$d1894-1981.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79056649
245 12 $aA southern life :$bletters of Paul Green, 1916-1981 /$cedited by Laurence G. Avery.
260 $aChapel Hill :$bUniversity of North Carolina Press,$c[1994], ©1994.
263 $a9407
300 $axlix, 735 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aThe Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aThis exceptional collection provides new insight into the life and works of North Carolina writer and activist Paul Green (1894-1981), the first playwright from the South to attract national and international attention for his socially conscious dramas.
520 8 $aA native of Harnett County, Green was a devoted teacher of philosophy and drama at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He became a leading member of the generation of writers who launched the southern literary renaissance and played a significant role in creating an authentic drama of black life, winning the Pulitzer Prize for his play In Abraham's Bosom in 1927.
520 8 $aFrom the 1930s until his death in 1981, he devoted much of his energy to the outdoor historical plays he called symphonic dramas, including his longest-running work, The Lost Colony (1937), which is one of several of his plays still performed before large audiences today.
520 8 $aConcern for human rights characterized Green's life as well as his plays, and his efforts on behalf of the poor and uneducated led him to advocate the abolition of chain gangs and capital punishment. His crusades were an important contribution to the broader social developments fundamental to the emerging New South in the first half of this century.
520 8 $aLaurence Avery has culled and annotated the 329 letters in this volume from over 9,000 existing pieces. Letters to such figures as Sherwood Anderson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, John Dos Passos, and Zora Neale Hurston appear throughout. Avery's introduction and full bibliography of the playwright's works and productions give readers a context for understanding Green's life and times.
520 8 $aCarl Sandburg called Green "one of the best talkers in the U.S.A." and for Green, letters were just another form of conversation. They are alive with the intellect, buoyant spirit, and sensitivity to the human condition that enabled him to become such a powerful force in his day
600 10 $aGreen, Paul,$d1894-1981$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aDramatists, American$zSouthern States$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aDramatists, American$y20th century$vCorrespondence.
651 0 $aSouthern States$xSocial life and customs.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125663
700 1 $aAvery, Laurence G.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93043849
830 0 $aFred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3513.R452$iZ48 1994