Winner of the 2008 Eudora Welty Prize
Confronting Modernity: Art and Society in Louisiana examines how the conflicts and benefits of modernity's nationalizing influences were reflected and resisted by ...

WINNER OF THE 2002 EUDORA WELTY PRIZE

For a biographer Shelby Foote is a famously reluctant subject. In writing this biography, however, C. Stuart Chapman gained valuable access through interviews and ...

Winner of the 2005 Eudora Welty Prize

From the moment Katherine Anne Porter arrived on the American literary scene in 1922, the public was intrigued with her life. Yet she herself revealed only scant facts ...

Winner of the 1994 Eudora Welty Prize

Ellen S. Woodward (1887-1971) was touted as Roosevelt's second most powerful woman appointee. Among American women only Eleanor Roosevelt and Labor Department Secretary ...

Winner of the 2004 Eudora Welty Prize

Each year, thousands of pilgrims visit the celebrated New Orleans tomb where Marie Laveau is said to lie. They seek her favors or fear her lingering influence. Voodoo ...

Winner of the 2000 Eudora Welty Prize

Despite the Enlightenment's promise of utopian belonging among all citizens, blacks and Jews were excluded from the life of their host countries. In their diasporic ...

Winner of the 1999 Eudora Welty Prize

Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown are the only women activists of the Black Power movement who have published book-length autobiographies. ...

Winner of the 1997 Eudora Welty Prize

“I take. . .an outward route, arguing that the Agrarian project was and must be seen as a willed campaign on the part of one elite to establish and control ‘the South’ in ...

Winner of the 1996 Eudora Welty Prize

The novels of Toni Morrison depict a disjointed culture striving to coalesce in a racialized society. No other contemporary writer conveys this “double consciousness” o ...