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Mary Hood

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Mary Hood (born September 16, 1946 in Brunswick, Georgia) is an award-winning fiction writer of predominantly Southern literature, who has authored three short story collections - How Far She Went, And Venus is Blue and A Clear View of the Southern Sky - two novellas - And Venus is Blue (also the title of her second short story collection) and Seam Busters - and a novel, Familiar Heat. [1]

78 relations: Alfred A. Knopf, Art & Antiques, Atlanta, Bailey White, Berry College, Brunswick, Georgia, Carson McCullers, Centre College, Charles Dickens, Cherokee County, Georgia, Clayton County, Georgia, Clyde Edgerton, Don Swaim, Douglas County, Georgia, Douglasville, Georgia, Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, Ferrol Sams, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia State University, Georgia Writers Association, Gray's Sporting Journal, Harper's Magazine, Hollywood, Jackson County, Georgia, Jane Fonda, Janet Burroway, Joanne Woodward, John Grisham, Kennesaw State University, Lake Allatoona, LibraryThing, Lillian Smith Book Award, Louisiana State University, Mercer University, Methodism, National Magazine Awards, New Stories from the South, North American Review, Novelist, Novella, Oxford College of Emory University, Pat Conroy, Paul Newman, Peter Fonda, Pushcart Prize, Raymond Andrews, Reinhardt University, Robert Penn Warren, ..., Screenplay, Short story, Southern United States literature, Sydney Pollack, Sylvester, Georgia, The Best American Essays, The Best American Short Stories, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, The Prince of Tides (novel), The Southern Review, Ticknor and Fields, Townsend Prize for Fiction, United Service Organizations, University of Georgia, University of Georgia Press, University of Mississippi, Walt Whitman, White, Georgia, Whiting Awards, Wired for Books, Woodstock, Georgia, World War II, Worth County High School, Writer, Yankee (magazine). Expand index (28 more) »

Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915.

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Art & Antiques

Art & Antiques is an American arts magazine.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Bailey White

June Bailey White (born May 31, 1950) is an American author and a regular radio commentator for the National Public Radio program All Things Considered.

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Berry College

Berry College is a private, four-year liberal arts college located in Mount Berry, Floyd County, Georgia, United States, just north of Rome.

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Brunswick, Georgia

Brunswick is a city in and the county seat of Glynn County, Georgia, United States.

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Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet.

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Centre College

Centre College is a private liberal arts college located in Danville, Kentucky, a community of approximately 16,000 in Boyle County, about 35 miles (55 km) south of Lexington, Kentucky.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Cherokee County, Georgia

Cherokee County is a county located in the US state of Georgia.

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Clayton County, Georgia

Clayton County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Clyde Edgerton

Clyde Edgerton (born May 20, 1944) is an American author and Creative Writing professor.

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Don Swaim

Don Swaim (born 1936) is an American journalist and broadcaster.

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Douglas County, Georgia

Douglas County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Douglasville, Georgia

The city of Douglasville is the county seat of Douglas County, Georgia, United States.

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Erskine Caldwell

Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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Eudora Welty

Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South.

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Ferrol Sams

Ferrol Aubrey Sams, Jr. (September 26, 1922 – January 29, 2013) was an American physician and novelist.

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Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Georgia State University

Georgia State University (commonly referred to as Georgia State, State, or GSU) is a public research university in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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Georgia Writers Association

Georgia Writers Association (GWA) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that works across the state to encourage and strengthen the proficiencies of writers in both the creative and business aspects of the writing life, and to provide networking opportunities for writers through regularly scheduled meetings and events.

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Gray's Sporting Journal

Gray's Sporting Journal is a magazine dedicated to the pursuit of outdoor recreation, with an emphasis on hunting and fishing.

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Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine (also called Harper's) is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Jackson County, Georgia

Jackson County is a county located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Jane Fonda

Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru.

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Janet Burroway

Janet Burroway (born September 21, 1936) is an American author.

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Joanne Woodward

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Newman (née Woodward; born February 27, 1930) is an American actress, producer, activist, and philanthropist.

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John Grisham

John Ray Grisham Jr. (born February 8, 1955).

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Kennesaw State University

Kennesaw State University (KSU) is a public, coeducational, research-oriented institution with two primary campuses located in Kennesaw, Georgia and in Marietta, Georgia.

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Lake Allatoona

Lake Allatoona (rarely called Allatoona Lake, its government name) is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Etowah River in northwestern part of the State of Georgia, in the countryside.

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LibraryThing

LibraryThing is a social cataloging web application for storing and sharing book catalogs and various types of book metadata.

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Lillian Smith Book Award

Jointly presented by the Southern Regional Council and the University of Georgia Libraries, the Lillian Smith Book Awards honor those authors who, through their outstanding writing about the American South, carry on Smith's legacy of elucidating the condition of racial and social inequity and proposing a vision of justice and human understanding.

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Louisiana State University

The Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Mercer University

Mercer University is the oldest private university in Georgia with its main campus in Macon, Georgia, United States.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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National Magazine Awards

The National Magazine Awards, also known as the Ellie Awards, honor print and digital publications that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative techniques, noteworthy enterprise and imaginative design.

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New Stories from the South

New Stories from the South is an annual compilation of short stories published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and billed as the year's best stories written by Southern writers or about the Southern United States.

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North American Review

North American Review (NAR) was the first literary magazine in the United States.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Novella

A novella is a text of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, somewhere between 7,500 and 40,000 words.

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Oxford College of Emory University

Oxford College of Emory University, also called Oxford College and founded in 1836 as Emory College, is an American two-year residential college in Oxford, Georgia, specializing in the foundations of liberal arts education.

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Pat Conroy

Donald Patrick "Pat" Conroy (October 26, 1945 – March 4, 2016) was an American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs.

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Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, race car driver, IndyCar owner, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist.

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Peter Fonda

Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1940) is an American actor.

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Pushcart Prize

The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year.

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Raymond Andrews

Raymond Andrews (June 6, 1934 – November 25, 1991) was an African-American novelist.

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Reinhardt University

Reinhardt University is a comprehensive liberal arts university located in Waleska, Georgia, United States, with an off-campus center in Alpharetta.

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Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.

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Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work by screenwriters for a film, video game, or television program.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.

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Southern United States literature

Southern literature (sometimes called the literature of the American South) is defined as American literature about the Southern United States or by writers from this region.

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Sydney Pollack

Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor.

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Sylvester, Georgia

Sylvester is the county seat of Worth County, Georgia, United States.

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The Best American Essays

The Best American Essays is a yearly anthology of magazine articles published in the United States.

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The Best American Short Stories

The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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The Georgia Review

The Georgia Review is a literary journal based in Athens, Georgia.

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The Gettysburg Review

The Gettysburg Review is a quarterly literary magazine featuring short stories, poetry, essays and reviews.

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The Kenyon Review

The Kenyon Review is a literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, US, home of Kenyon College.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Prince of Tides (novel)

The Prince of Tides is a novel by Pat Conroy, first published in 1986.

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The Southern Review

The Southern Review is a quarterly literary magazine that was established by Robert Penn Warren in 1935 at the behest of Charles W. Pipkin and funded by Huey Long as a part of his investment in Louisiana State University.

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Ticknor and Fields

Ticknor and Fields was an American publishing company based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Townsend Prize for Fiction

The is awarded biennially (that is, every two years) to a writer from the U.S. state of Georgia for the best novel published during those years, by the and the literary journal of.

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United Service Organizations

The United Service Organizations Inc. (USO) is a nonprofit organization that provides live entertainment, such as comedians and musicians, and other programs to members of the United States Armed Forces and their families.

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University of Georgia

The University of Georgia, also referred to as UGA or simply Georgia, is an American public comprehensive research university.

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University of Georgia Press

The University of Georgia Press or UGA Press is a scholarly publishing house for the University System of Georgia.

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University of Mississippi

The University of Mississippi (colloquially known as Ole Miss) is an American public research university located in Oxford, Mississippi.

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Walt Whitman

Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist.

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White, Georgia

White is a city in Bartow County, Georgia, United States.

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Whiting Awards

The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays.

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Wired for Books

Wired for Books was an online educational project of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

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Woodstock, Georgia

Woodstock is a city in Cherokee County, Georgia, United States.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Worth County High School

Worth County High School (also known as Worth County Comprehensive High School) is a public high school located in Sylvester, Georgia, United States.

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Writer

A writer is a person who uses written words in various styles and techniques to communicate their ideas.

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Yankee (magazine)

Yankee magazine was founded in 1935 and is based in Dublin, New Hampshire, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hood

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