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One
of the northernmost Southern states, Missouri offers a unique
literary perspective -- from Mark Twain, who proudly called himself a
southern writer, to Linda Bloodworth Thomason a voice from the
Ozarks.
Mark Twain
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... Born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri,
his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a rural town
along the Mississippi when he was four years old. ...
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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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Southern Antiques interview
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... Mary Robertson is the owner of Annie Laurie’s
Antiques in Cape Girardeau, Missouri—a mid-south town
on the edge of Missouri on the Mississippi River.
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Maya Angelou
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She
was born Marguerite Anne Johnson on April 4, 1928, in St.
Louis, Missouri. ... |
Kate Chopin
Born Catherine O'Flaherty on July 12, 1850, in St. Louis,
Missouri, in 1855, her
father, Thomas O'Flaherty died suddenly, and so, at five
years old, Kate was forced to reshape her concept of herself
and her ...
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Linda Bloodworth Thomason
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Born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Linda Bloodworth
Thomason started her writing career as a magazine writer in
Los Angeles. She began ...
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Peter
Taylor
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In
an effort to maintain solid work as a lawyer during the
Great Depression, Taylor's father moved his family first to
Nashville, Tennessee, then St. Louis, Missouri
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Tennesse Williams
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The family
lived for seven years in Clarksdale, Mississippi, before
moving to St. Louis in 1918. He went to college at the
University of Missouri, but he did not stay long. He
returned to St. Louis and worked for a shoe company... |
Vance
Randolph
... moved to
southern Missouri in 1919. He spent the rest of his
life in the Ozark Mountain region... He worked for over forty years with
great intensity gathering lore of the Ozarks. Because he lived
in the Ozarks for most of his life, successively in Pineville,
Missouri, Galena Missouri ...
Langston Hughes
...was born in 1902 in
Joplin, Missouri, a small town in the southwest corner of Missouri.
Paulette Jiles
Interviewed by Southern Literary Review
I was so surprised to find out that Mark Twain was from
Missouri. I thought that to be a full-time writer
you had to be from someplace like Mars or Boston. ...
The idea
for
Enemy
Women
came after I found that a large number of women in
Missouri were imprisoned during the Civil War.
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