Field-Of-Study: Fiction

Hortense Calisher

"Jews have a pride of heritage, tradition and tragedy.  So have Southerners, with different subject matter.  Both are often anecdotalists, of humors peculiar to each–and run to large family gatherings. . . . The combination was odd all round, volcanic to meditative to fruitfully dull, bound to produce someone interested in character, society and time."

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Kevin Brockmeier

Appointed for fiction, Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Brief History of the Dead and The Truth About Celia, the children’s novels City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery, and the story collections Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the Seventh Layer. He has published stories

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