Title: Southern selves : from Mark Twain and Eudora Welty to Maya Angelou and Kaye Gibbons : a collection of autobiographical writing /
Authors: Watkins, James H.
Publisher: Vintage Books,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Authors, American Southern States Biography.; Autobiographies Southern States.; Authors, American Homes and haunts Southern States; Authors, American Biography; Southern States Biography; Southern States Intellectual life
Contents: From A death in the Family / James Agee -- From Skin: talking about sex, class & literature / Dorothy Allison -- From I knew why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- From On fire / Larry Brown -- From Brother to a dragonfly / Will D. Campbell -- From A childhood: the biography of a place / Harry Crews -- From Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself / Frederick Douglass -- "The first grade, Jesus, and the Hollyberry family" / Kaye Gibbons -- From Witness to sorrow: the antebellus autobiography of William J. Grayson / William J. Grayson -- From Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston -- From Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs -- From A slaveholder's daughter / Belle Kearney -- From Confessions of a failed Southern lady / Florence King -- From The making of a Southerner / Katharine Du Pre Lumkin -- From The South and the Southerner / Ralph McGill -- From Keeper of the moon: a Southern boyhood / Tim McLaurin -- From Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody -- From North toward home / Willie Morris -- From Proud shoes: The story of an American family / Pauli Murray -- From Lanterns on the levee: recollections of a planter's son / William Alexander Percy -- From Clear pictures: first loves, first guides / Reynolds Price -- From Background in Tennessee / Evelyn Scott -- From Killers of the dream / Lillian Smith -- From One upon a time when we were Colored / Clifton Taulbert -- From Destruction and reconstruction: personal experiences of the late war / Richard Taylor -- "The private history of a campaign that failed" / Mark Twain -- From Portrait of a father / Robert Penn Warren -- From Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington -- From "Co. Aytch": a side show of the big show / Sam R. Watkins -- From One writer's beginnings / Eudora Welty -- From Black boy (American hunger) / Richard Wright.