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Name
  
Ellen Douglas

Role
  
Author




Died
  
November 7, 2012, Jackson, Mississippi, United States

Nominations
  
Books
  
Can't quit you - baby, Apostles of light, The rock cried out, Truth, A family's affairs

Jul 12 ellen douglas a literary legacy


Ellen Douglas was the pen name of Josephine Ayres Haxton (July 12, 1921 – November 7, 2012), an American author. Her 1973 novel Apostles of Light was a National Book Award nominee.

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Biography

Douglas was born in Natchez, Mississippi and grew up in Hope, Arkansas, and Alexandria, Louisiana. She graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1942. She later taught writing there. She adopted the pen name Ellen Douglas before the publication of A Family’s Affairs to protect the privacy of two aunts, on whose lives she had based much of the plot.

Douglas died of heart failure at the age of 91 on November 7, 2012.

Margalit Fox writes that Douglas's work "explored the epochal divide between the Old South and the New, examining vast, difficult subjects — race relations, tensions between the sexes, the conflict between the needs of the individual and those of the community — through the small, clear prism of domestic life."

References

Ellen Douglas Wikipedia


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