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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.
… 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. …
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 …
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 …
Born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Linda Bloodworth Thomason started her writing career as a magazine writer in Los Angeles. She began …
Linda Bloodworth Thomason’s Liberating Paris Book Review
I’ve read some reviews that criticized Thomason’s characters as being “unbelievable,” but as someone born and raised in a small town in southeast Missouri, …
… 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 …
… 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…
… 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 …
…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.
Written by: JC Robertson
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