Four More Author Profiles on This Goodly Land

This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape has just added four new Alabama author profiles to its Web site. Like our earlier profiles, these include biographical information about the authors, information about their work, and places where interested readers can go to find out more.

Our latest additions are novelist Catherine Rodgers, Old Southwest humorists H. E. Taliaferro and George Washington Harris, and autobiographer/children’s book author Ellen Tarry.

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape

New Author Profiles on This Goodly Land

This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape has just added six new Alabama author profiles to its Web site. Like our earlier profiles, these include biographical information about the authors, information about their work, and places where interested readers can go to find out more.

Our latest additions are novelist Jack Bethea, travel and nature writer Archie Carr, journalist and nonfiction writer Frye Gaillard, crime fiction writer Carolyn Haines, and novelists/children’s book authors Wyatt Blassingame and Virginia Sorensen.

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape

Audio: Rheta Grimsley Johnson on NPR

On November 29, 2009, Alabama author Rheta Grimsley Johnson's book Poor Man's Provence (NewSouthBooks) was reviewed by Debbie Elliott on NPR’s program Weekend Edition Sunday. In addition to the review, the Web site has an excerpt from the book.

Listen to Debbie Elliott's review of Poor Man's Provence on NPR.

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape

First Draft Fall Issue Now Available Online

The Fall '09 issue of First Draft, the journal of the Alabama Writers' Forum, is now available online in PDF format at the First Draft page of the AWF Web site. PDFs of earlier issues, from Summer '98 through Spring '09, are also available here.

This issue features an interview with Muscogee poet Joy Harjo and an essay by Alabama author Phyllis Alesia Perry. First Draft also publishes articles about Alabama literary events, book reviews, and other items of literary interest.

AWF, a partnership program of the Alabama State Council on the Arts, sponsors community-based programs to promote the appreciation of Alabama's literary heritage and to support Alabama's writers in the various stages of their careers. Their Web site also includes book reviews, a directory of literary resources, and announcements of classes, competitions, and publishing opportunities.

Download a PDF version of the Fall '09 issue of First Draft.

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape

Video: Philip Henry Gosse in Alabama

On October 4, 2007, Auburn University Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology professor Gary Mullen presented a lecture on Alabama author Philip Henry Gosse. This lecture was presented as part of the Discover Auburn series. Videos from this series are now available online as part of the Auburn University Digital Library.

The Discover Auburn lecture series is presented jointly by the Auburn University Libraries, the Auburn University Bookstore, and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University.

Watch Prof. Gary Mullen's lecture "Philip Henry Gosse: A Naturalist's View of Dallas County, Alabama in 1838."

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape