Ellen Gilchrist

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Ellen Gilchrist

Ellen Gilchrist (born February 20, 1935 in Vicksburg , Mississippi ) is an American writer .

Life

Ellen Gilchrist is the daughter of an engineer. She spent her childhood in the Mississippi Delta on her maternal grandfather's plantation and gained early access to literature through her mother. She married for the first time when she was 19; three more marriages followed, all of which ended in divorce. In 1967 she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi . From 1976 to 1979 she worked for the " Vieux Carre Courier ", a newspaper in New Orleans . In 1976 she took up postgraduate studies at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and began writing literary texts. After a first volume of poetry, she has been publishing volumes of short stories and novels in rapid succession since the 1980s , most of which are set in the southern states and often depict episodes from the life of the fictional Manning family in a very lively and humorous way. From 1984 to 1985, Ellen Gilchrist was a news editor and commentator for National Public Radio in Washington, DC Ellen Gilchrist is a member of the Authors Guild .

Awards

Works

  • The land surveyor's daughter , Fayetteville, Ark. 1979
  • In the land of dreamy dreams , Fayetteville 1981
  • The annunciation , Boston 1983
  • Victory over Japan , Boston 1984
  • Drunk with love , Boston 1986
  • Riding out the tropical depression , New Orleans, La. 1986
  • Falling through space , Boston 1987
  • Two stories , New York 1988
  • The Anna papers , Boston 1988
  • Light can be both wave and particle , Boston 1989
  • I cannot get you close enough , Boston 1990
  • Net of jewels , Boston 1992
  • Starcarbon , Boston 1994
  • Anabasis , Jackson 1994
  • The age of miracles , Boston 1995
  • Rhoda , Boston 1995
  • The courts of love , Boston, Mass. 1996
  • Sarah Conley , Boston 1997
  • Flights of angels , Boston 1998
  • The cabal and other stories , Boston 2000
  • Collected stories , Boston 2000
  • I, Rhoda Manning, go hunting with my daddy, & other stories , Boston 2002

Remarks

  1. ↑ This does not mean the mouth region of the Mississippi south of Baton Rouge , Louisiana , but a region on the Mississippi in the state of the same name, see →  Lower Mississippi Delta Region and →  Yazoo River

literature

  • Mary A. McCay: Ellen Gilchrist , New York 1997
  • Margaret Donovan Bauer: The fiction of Ellen Gilchrist , Gainesville, Fla. [u. a.] 1999

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personal data
SURNAME Gilchrist, Ellen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Vicksburg , Mississippi