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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.
| Born, Thomas Lanier Williams, in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1911, Tennessee Williams was the first of two children born into a prestigious Tennessee family. … |
| … 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. … |
| … Forced to forego his aspirations for the Naval Academy, Warren enrolled at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee to study engineering. … |
Flannery O’Connor’s
A Good Man is Hard to Find
| … unlikable. The story begins when a family packs up their car and heads south from Tennessee to Florida for a family vacation. … |
| … 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, born in Pulaski, Tennessee the son of a Methodist minister, was raised in a strongly religious though also very open-minded household. … |
| … 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. … |
…born in Hohenwald, Tennessee in 1943. He has spent most of his life working as a carpenter and living in the Hohenwald, …
…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
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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
Written by: JC Robertson