Jul 12 Ellen Douglas, A Literary Legacy
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 2016-07-12

Diane Bunch presents a Natchez History Minute about author Ellen Douglas who was born Josephine Chamberlain Ayers in Natchez on this day, July 12 in 1921. Many of Douglas's best novels are set in a fictional Natchez and they explore the author's great preoccupation with truth, asking how anyone can fully know the past or understand another human being.