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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
… 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. …
… 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
… and her husband, Harry Thomason, formed their own production company in 1983 called Mozark Productions–named after their two home states, Missouri and Arkansas …
Maya Angelou’s
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
… 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. …
… lived in the Ozarks for most of his life, successively … Eureka Springs Arkansas, and Fayetteville Arkansas He died November 1, 1980 in Fayetteville, < Arkansas
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 …
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
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 …
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. …
Tom Franklin Interviewed by Southern Literary Review
TF: I went to the University of South Alabama for my Bachelors then to University of Arkansas in Fayetteville for my MFA. Got that in 1998. …
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