Growing Up in Mississippi

by Tucker, Judy H.

• ISBN13: 9781934110713
• ISBN10: 193411071X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

With contributions from Elizabeth Aydelott, Fred Banks, Jimmy Buffett, Edward Cohen, Maggie Wade Dixon, Ellen Douglas, W. Ralph Eubanks, Richard Ford, Gwendolyn Gong, Carolyn Haines, Lorian Hemingway, Samuel Jones, Robert Khayat, B. B. King, John Maxwell, Alberto Mora, Donald Peterson, Noel Polk, Jerry Rice, George Riggs, Robert St. John, Sid Salter, Constance Slaughter-Harvey, Elizabeth Spencer, Clifton Taulbert, Keith Tonkel, Sela Ward, Wyatt Waters, Jim Weatherly, and William WinterGrowing Up in Mississippishares experiences and impressions from a multifaceted group representing all areas of the state and many professions, talents, and temperaments. Parents, teachers, churches, communities, landscape, and historical context profoundly influenced these men and women when they were young.In his revealing foreword, Richard Ford explores the very essence of influence and illustrates his conclusions by recalling an indelible incident between his mother and himself in the front yard of their home on Congress Street in Jackson, Mississippi. The volume then showcases poignant memories of other distinguished individuals: a governor and statesman, journalists, a news anchor, a playwright, novelists, memoirists, a publisher, a minister, educators and scholars, judges and lawyers, a test pilot and astronaut, a renowned watercolorist, a celebrated actress, and many more.Spanning more than five decades, these essays give us a glimpse of the people and places that nurtured these outstanding individuals and their remarkable gifts.Judy H. Tucker works as a freelance editor in Jackson, Mississippi. Charline R. McCord, a freelance editor in Clinton, Mississippi, is associate director and director of communications at the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention's Southeast Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies. Together they have edited several collections of stories, includingChristmas Stories from Mississippi. The author of six novels and three collections of stories, Richard Ford was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award forIndependence Day, the first book to win both prizes. In 2001 he received the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
William F. Winter	p. 3
Elizabeth Spencer	p. 11
Ellen Douglas	p. 19
B. B. King	p. 23
Elizabeth H. Aydelott	p. 29
Robert C. Khayat	p. 39
Donald H. Peterson	p. 47
Keith Tonkel	p. 51
Samuel Jones	p. 57
Jim Weatherly	p. 63
Fred Banks	p. 71
Noel Polk	p. 77
John Maxwell	p. 87
Constance Slaughter-Harvey	p. 95
Jimmy Buffet	p. 101
George E. Riggs	p. 105
Clifton L. Taulbert	p. 117
Alberto J. Mora	p. 121
Edward Cohen	p. 127
Carolyn Haines	p. 133
Lorian Hemingway	p. 141
Sela Ward	p. 147
W. Ralph Eubanks	p. 153
Sid Salter	p. 161
Wyatt Waters	p. 169
Gwendolyn Gong	p. 175
Maggie Wade Dixon	p. 183
Robert St. John	p. 189
Jerry Rice	p. 195
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