Lee Smith, Annie Dillard, and the Hollins Group

A Genesis of Writers (Southern Literary Studies)

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Lee Smith, Annie Dillard, and the Hollins Group

A Genesis of Writers (Southern Literary Studies)

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By the late 1950s Hollins College had established itself as a nationally competitive academic institution. With the emergence of Louis D. Rubin, Jr.'s writing program, this southern women's school launched some of the most powerful voices in contemporary literature. The careers of Lee Smith, Annie Dillard, Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan, and Anne Goodwyn Jones (members of the class of '67) are representative of the impact the Hollins writing community has had.

For Smith, Dillard, and their peers, the years at Hollins were an active and complex gestation period for their themes and writing. Annie Dillard, fresh out of college, burst onto the literary scene with her Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Lee Smith - who wrote her first novel, The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed, while still at Hollins - has received significant critical attention for novels such as Fair and Tender Ladies and Oral History.

Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan's Daughters of Time and Anne Goodwyn Jones's Tomorrow Is Another Day are recognized as major feminist studies of southern literature. In examining the institution's roots, the influence of significant mentors in the 1960s, and the writers themselves in the class of 1967, Lee Smith, Annie Dillard, and the Hollins Group provides an intriguing analysis of how one women's writing community coalesced, evolved, succeeded, and persevered.

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Lee Smith, Annie Dillard, and the Hollins Group: A Genesis of Writers (Southern Literary Studies)
September 1999, Louisiana State University Press
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Lee Smith, Annie Dillard, and the Hollins Group: a genesis of writers
1998, Louisiana State University Press
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First Sentence

"During a 1990 interview, while attempting to describe her development as a writer, Lee Smith arrived at an intriguing image for what she considered to be a significant period in her literary growth."

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Library of Congress
PS267.H65 P37 1998

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
234
Dimensions
8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
Weight
13 ounces

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OL7945687M
Internet Archive
leesmithanniedil0000parr
ISBN 10
0807124346
ISBN 13
9780807124345
OCLC/WorldCat
45287276
Library Thing
1329731
Goodreads
488891

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