Tennessee literature comes from some of the greatest early southern literary
figures and is home to Vanderbilt University--perhaps the most
influential university for southern literature's development.
Home also to Pulitzer Prize winning author,
Peter Taylor,
who won the Pulitzer for
Summons to Memphis. Professor
John
Crowe Ransom who taught young writes like
Robert Penn Warren and
Peter Taylor was born and raised in the great state of Tennessee,
and Shelby Foote has called Memphis home for many years.
Tennessee Williams
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Born, Thomas Lanier Williams, in Columbus, Mississippi, in
1911, Tennessee Williams was the first of two
children born into a prestigious Tennessee family.
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Peter Taylor
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... Peter Hillsman Taylor was born on January 8, 1917,
in the small west Tennessee town of Trenton. ...
As a dramatist, he authored Tennessee Day in St.
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Robert Penn Warren
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... Forced to forego his aspirations for the Naval
Academy, Warren enrolled at Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tennessee to study engineering. ...
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Flannery O'Connor's
A Good Man is Hard to Find
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... unlikable. The story begins when a family packs up
their car and heads south from Tennessee to Florida
for a family vacation. ... |
Shelby Foote
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... served as a lecturer at the University of Virginia
and Memphis State. Shelby Foote lives with his third wife in
Memphis, Tennessee. |
John Crowe Ransom
... John Crowe Ransom, born in Pulaski, Tennessee
the son of a Methodist minister, was raised in a strongly
religious though also very open-minded household. ...
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Allen Tate
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... In 1967 Tate became the father of twin sons, one of
whom died in an accident in 1968 after the family's move to
Sewanee, Tennessee. ... |
William
Gay
...born in
Hohenwald, Tennessee in 1943.
He has spent most of his life working as a carpenter and living in
the Hohenwald, ...
Michael Lee West
...lives in a renovated
funeral home outside Nashville, Tennessee.
Did you
know?
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Tennessee has produced
three U.S. presidents: Andrew Jackson, 1829-37; James K. Polk, 1845-49;
and
Andrew Johnson, 1865-69.
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The worst earthquake in
American history occurred in the winter of 1811-12 in northwestern
Tennessee.
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The Alex Haley boyhood
home in Henning is the first state-owned historic site devoted to
African Americans in Tennessee.
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Tennessee's "Lost Sea" in
Sweetwater is the largest underground lake in the U.S.
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In 1933, the mockingbird
was selected as the state bird because it is considered one of the
finest singers among North American birds
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Tennessee
Literature
& Style
1987 Pulizer Prize winner
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