edited by Barbara A. Baker
contributions by Roberta S. Maguire, Lee Martin, Jo McDougall, Don Noble, Lewis Nordan, Constance C. Relihan, Robert Rudnicki, Terrell L. Tebbetts, Marcel Arbeit, Barbara A. Baker, Kate Beard, Manuel Broncano, Hal Crowther, John Dufresne, Edward J. Dupuy and Clyde Edgerton
University of Alabama Press, 2012
Paper: 978-0-8173-5681-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-8574-3
Library of Congress Classification PS3564.O55Z75 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Lewis Nordan: Humor, Heartbreak, and Hope examines and celebrates the work of southern writer Lewis “Buddy” Nordan, whose stories reveal his own pain and humanity and in their honesty force us to recognize ourselves within them.

Written by scholars and fiction writers who represent a fascinating range of experience—from a Shakespearean scholar to English professors to a former student of Nordan’s—this is a rich array of essays, poems, and visual arts in tribute to this increasingly important writer. The collection deepens the base of scholarship on Nordan, and contextualizes his work in relation to other important southern writers such as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty.

Nordan was born and raised in Mississippi before moving to Alabama to pursue his Ph.D. at Auburn University. He taught for several years at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and retired from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was a professor of English. Nordan has written four novels, three collections of short stories, and a memoir entitled Boy with Loaded Gun. His second novel, Wolf Whistle, won the Southern Book Award, and his subsequent novel, The Sharpshooter Blues, won the Notable Book Award from the American Library Association and the Fiction Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. Nordan is renowned for his distinctive comic writing style, even while addressing more serious personal and cultural issues such as heartbreak, loss, violence, and racism. He transforms tragic characters and events into moments of artistic transcendence, illuminating what he calls the “history of all human beings.”

See other books on: Crowther, Hal | Heartbreak | Hope | Humor | McDougall, Jo
See other titles from University of Alabama Press