Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, December 13, 1994 TAG: 9412130028
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 3 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
Marion
Novels/Short stories; Poetry; Autobiography/Memoirs
Major works: Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
A Story Teller's Story (1924)
Dark Laughter (1925)
Awards: Dial Award (1921)
Elected to National Institute of Arts and Letters (1937)
James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958)
Richmond
Novels/Short stories; History; Poetry; Autobiography/Memoirs
Major works: Jurgen (1919)
The Biography of the Life of Manuel
(18 volumes of collected works, 1927 - 1930)
Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
Back Creek Valley
Novels/Short stories;
Major works: My Antonia (1918)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)
Awards: Pulitzer Price for Fiction (1922)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal (1944)
John Dos Passos (1896 - 1970)
Spence's Point
Novels/Short Stories; Plays/Screenplays
Major works: Three Soldiers (1921)
Manhattan Transfer (1925)
U.S.A. (1938)
Awards: Guggenheim fellowships: 1939, 1940, 1942
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal (1957)
Rita Dove (b. 1952)
Charlottesville
Novels/Short stories; Plays/Screenplays; Poetry
Major works: Thomas and Beulah (1986)
Grace Notes (1989)
Through the Ivory Gate (1992)
The Darker Face of the Earth (1993)
Awards: Poet Laureate of the United States
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1987
Lavan Younger Poet Award, Academy of American Poets (1986)
John Fox Jr. (1862 - 1919)
Big Stone Gap
Novels/Short stories
Major works: The Little Shepherd of Kingdome Come (1903)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908)
Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945)
Richmond
Novels/Short stories; Autobiography/Memoirs
Major works: Barren Ground (1925)
The Sheltered Life (1932)
Vein of Iron (1935)
In This Our Life (1941)
Awards: Elected to National Institute of Arts and Letters (1932)
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1938)
Pulitzer Price for Fiction (1942)
Earl Hamner Jr.(b. 1923)
Schuyler
Novels/Short stories; Plays/Screenplays; Television scripts
Major works: Fifty Roads to Town (1953)
Spencer's Mountain (1961)
The Homecoming (1970)
Creator of The Waltons (1972 - 81)
Awards: George Foster Peabody Award (1972)
Emmy Award (1974)
Television Executives Association Man of the Year (1974)
Mary Johnston (1870 - 1936)
Warm Springs
Novels/Short Stories
Major works: Prisoners of Hope (1898)
To Have and To Hold (1900)
Audrey (1902)
The Long Roll (1911)
William Styron (b. 1925)
Newport News
Autobiography/Memoirs; Novels/Short stories; Plays/Screenplays
Major works: Lie Down in Darkness (1951)
The Long March (1952)
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)
Sophie's Choice (1979)
A Tidewater Morning (1993)
Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1968)
National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1952, 1968)
National Book Award (1980)
American Book Award (1980)
Peter Taylor (1917 - 1994)
Charlottesville
Novels/Short stories; Plays/Screenplays
Major works: A Woman of Means (1950)
The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor (1969)
A Summons to Memphis (1986)
In the Tennessee Country (1994)
Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1987)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal (1978)
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1986)
National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1986)
Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
Richmond
Novels/Short stories; Social commentary
Major works: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970)
The Right Stuff (1979)
Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
Awards: National Book Award Finalist for Contemporary Affairs (1972)
National Book Award for Non-Fiction (1980)
American Book Award for Non-Fiction (1980)
Alice Adams (b. 1926)
Fredericksburg
Novels/Short stories
Russell Baker (b. 1925)
Loudoun County
Autobiography/Memoirs; Humor/Satire
Richard Bausch (b. 1945)
Broad Run
Novels/Short stories
Nelson Bond
(b. 1908)
Roanoke
Science fiction/Fantasy; Plays/Screenplays
Rita Mae Brown (b. 1944)
Afton
Novels/Short stories; Biography
J. Bryan III (1904 - 1993)
Richmond
Novels/Short stories; Biography
John Casey (b. 1939)
Charlottesville
Novels/Short stories
Patricia D. Cornwell (b. 1956)
Richmond
Mystery/Crime/Suspense
Virginius Dabney (b. 1901)
Richmond
History; Biography; Journalism
Paxton Davis (1925 - 1994)
Fincastle
Novels/Short stories; Autobiography/Memoirs; Journalism
Douglas Day (b. 1932)
Charlottesville
Novels/Short stories; Biography
R. H. W. Dillard (b. 1937)
Roanoke
Literary criticism and history; Novels/Short stories; Plays/Screenplays; Poetry
Scott Donaldson (b. 1928)
Williamsburg
Literary criticism and history; Biography; Social commentary
Carleton Drewry (1901 - 1991)
Roanoke
Poetry
Douglas Southall Freeman (1886 - 1953)
Richmond
Biography; Journalism
George Garrett (b. 1929)
Charlottesville
Novels/Short stories; Plays/Screenplays; Poetry; Literary criticism and history
Margaret Gibson (b. 1944)
Richmond
Poetry
William Gibson (b. 1948)
Wytheville
Science fiction/Fantasy
Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)
Blacksburg
Children's/Juvenile fiction; Poetry; Biography
Julien Green (b. 1900)
Charlottesville
Novels/Short stories; Autobiography/Memoirs; Plays/Screenplays
Nancy Hale (1908 - 1988)
Charlottesville
Novels/Short stories
Cathryn Hankla (b. 1958)
Roanoke
Novels/Short stories; Poetry
William Hoffman (b. 1925)
Charlotte Court House
Novels/Short stories
David Huddle (b. 1942)
Ivanhoe
Novels/Short stories; Journalism; Poetry
Katie Letcher Lyle (b. 1938)
Lexington
Novels/Short stories; History
Dumas Malone (1892 - 1986)
Charlottesville
Biography; History
Paule Marshall (b. 1929)
Richmond
Novels/Short stories
David John Mays (1896 - 1971)
Richmond
Biography; History
Donald McCaig (b. 1940)
Williamsville
Novels/Short stories; Poetry; Non-fiction
Sharyn McCrumb (b. 1948)
Shawsville
Mystery/Crime/Suspense
Elizabeth Seydel Morgan (b. 1939)
Richmond
Novels/Short stories; Poetry
Thomas Nelson Page (1853 - 1922)
Hanover County
Novels/Short stories; Poetry
Katherine Paterson (b. 1932)
Norfolk
Children's/Juvenile fiction; Children's/Non-fiction; Literary criticism and history
Lewis B. Puller Jr. (1945 - 1994)
Alexandria
Autobiography/Memoirs
Louis D. Rubin Jr. (b. 1923)
Hollins
Novels/Short stories; Literary criticism and history; Biography
Mary Lee Settle (b. 1918)
Charlottesville
Novels/Short stories; Children's/Non-fiction; Autobiography/Memoirs; Biography
Dave Smith (b. 1942)
Portsmouth
Novels/Short stories; Poetry
Lee Smith (b. 1944)
Grundy
Novels/Short stories
Anne Spencer (1882 - 1975)
Lynchburg
Poetry
Dabney Stuart (b. 1937)
Lexington
Novels/Short stories; Literary criticism and history; Poetry
Eleanor Ross Taylor (b. 1920)
Charlottesville
Poetry
Henry Taylor (b. 1942)
Lincoln
Poetry; Literary criticism and history; Translations
Ellen Bryant Voigt (b. 1943)
Danville
Poetry
Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
Hale's Ford
Autobiography/Memoirs; History
Phyllis A. Whitney (b. 1903)
Faber
Mystery/Crime/Suspense; Romance/Historical; Children's/Juvenile fiction
Charles Wright (b. 1935)
Charlottesville
Poetry
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