Ellen Douglas, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $18.95 (221p) ISBN 978-1-56512-214-7
After 40 years of exploring Southern life through fiction such as the NBA finalist, Apostles of Light, Mississippi native Douglas turns to nonfiction in these deeply felt reminiscences full of family skeletons, tragedies, crises and the ghosts of...
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Ellen Douglas, Author Penguin Books $12.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-012102-5
In this ``beautifully woven narrative'' about two Mississippi women during the 1960s and '70s, ``the author shows how `layers of circumstance and imagining,' reality and illusion, inextricably entwine one individual with another. Powerful, poignant...
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Ellen Douglas, Author Atheneum Books $0 (256p) ISBN 978-0-689-11793-0
Those encountering Douglas (a pseudonym for Josephine Haxton, an acclaimed Mississippi writer) for the first time in this remarkable novel will want to read everything she has written. Set in Mississippi during the 1960s and '70s, the narrative at...
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Ellen Douglas, Author, Elizabeth Wolfe, Illustrator University Press of Mississippi $30 (233p) ISBN 978-0-87805-393-3
Included in this new edition of an important Southern writer's short fiction originally published in 1963 (and long out of print) are powerful illustrations by a young Southern artist. In these four stories, Douglas ( Can't Quit You Baby )...
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