Southerners in NYC

by Long, Judy; Allen, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9781892514103
• ISBN10: 1892514109
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Hill Street Pr

Summary

Southerners in NYC collects for the first time fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry that illuminates our understandings of both many of our greatest writers and the city itself. From 58-year resident of New York Donald Windham, who writes of his native Atlanta with the detached affection and insight that only an informed outsider can have, to short-term New Yorker Harper Lee, who noted that "New York streets shine wet with the same gentle farmer's rain that soaks Alabama's winter fields", some came to stay while others only passed through. The cultural alliance between the city and the South is so strong its characters were central to one of the greatest American literary movements -- the Harlem Renaissance.