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August, 2001 Vol. 2, No.8
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August, 2001 Vol. 2, No.8 |
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She was appointed to the National Council on the Arts by President Nixon. She twice received the Freedom Medal of Honor, from Presidents Carter and Reagan. Her portrait is part of the permanent “Great Americans” collection at the National Portrait Gallery. Her literary works brought her international acclaim and a Pulitzer Prize. We have lost a national treasure. Mississippi has lost its gentle southern lady – Miss Eudora Welty.
Montgomery author Julia Oliver began writing fiction in the mid-1980's. Of her early work, Oliver's short story "The Ritual" won first place in a competition judged by Ernest Gaines. Her 1993 story story collection, Seventeen Times as High as the Moon, was a fiction finalist in the Alabama Library Association Awards. Julia Oliver's current novel Music of Falling Water is attracting the notice of literary circles.
Practically an institution in Memphis, Tennessee, where she resides, Frances Brinkley Cowden is editor of Grandmother Earth and Life Press, a small publishing company that she founded in 1993. Local poets praise her and Christian writers adore her. As editor/publisher of Grandmother Earth and Life Press, she has done the layouts for 15 books and numerous other promotional projects. She has conducted writers’ conferences for the past three years.
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