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

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 novelists Robert E. Bell, Andrew Lytle, Anne Rivers Siddons, and Lee Smith.

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

New Author Photos on This Goodly Land

We've added new photos to fifteen of our author profiles at This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape.

Profiles with new photos include:

Crime fiction writers Ace Atkins, Tim Dorsey, and Richard North Patterson; novelists Joe David Brown, Rebecca Harding Davis, Mary Johnston, and Elise Sanguinetti; Harlem Renasissance writers Arna Bontemps and George Wylie Henderson; poets Sidney Lanier and Father Abram J. Ryan; New Journalist Gay Talese; travel writer Octavia Walton Le Vert; writers for children and young adults Peter Huggins and Deborah Wiles

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

Nine New Author Profiles on This Goodly Land

This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape has just added nine 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 New Journalist Gay Talese, travel writer and Nineteenth Century journalist Anne Royall, Social Realism novelist Rebecca Harding Davis, librarian and Harlem Renaissance figure Arna Bontemps, and writers of books for children and young adults John Green, Peter Huggins, Margaret Zehmer Searcy, Emma Gelders Sterne, and Deborah Wiles.

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