Arkansas
has
its
own
literary
tradition encompassing a broad range of culture from the west, the
south and the Ozark Mountains.
Linda Bloodworth Thomason's
Liberating Paris Book Review
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Liberating Paris, Thomason plays on her strength of
character development to create a rich and lively story full
of wit and wisdom in a sleepy Arkansas town. ...
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Maya Angelou
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When Angelou was three years old, her parents divorced and
sent their children to live in the rural, segregated town of
Stamps, Arkansas,. ... |
SLR Interviews Linda Bloodworth Thomason
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and her husband, Harry Thomason, formed their own production
company in 1983 called Mozark Productions--named after their
two home states, Missouri and Arkansas ...
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Maya Angelou's
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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She lives in Stamps, Arkansas, a town segregated to
the point that as a young girl, Maya isn’t sure that white
people even exist. ... |
John Grisham's
A Painted House
...There is a calm, contemplative tone that reflects the
atmosphere of the rural setting, as one expects of Jonesboro, Arkansas.
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Vance Randolph
... lived
in the Ozarks for most of his life, successively ... Eureka Springs
Arkansas, and Fayetteville
Arkansas,
He died November 1, 1980 in Fayetteville,
Arkansas.
Barry Hannah
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A year later he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in
Creative Writing from Arkansas and began teaching
creative writing at Clemson University in South ... |
Steve Yarbrough
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He earned
his MFA at the University of Arkansas in
Fayetteville. Yarbrough taught at Virginia Tech for four
years before accepting a position to teach ... |
SLR Interviews
Steve Yarbrough
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Yarbrough: I got a BA and MA at Ole Miss, then a MFA at
University of Arkansas in Fayetteville,
Arkansas. I taught at Virginia Tech for 4 years then
moved ... |
Tom Franklin
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In 1998, he earned his MFA in fiction at the University
of Arkansas. Franklin returned to Alabama to
teach at the University of South Alabama. ... |
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