Fellowship of Southern Writers

C. ERIC LINCOLN (1924-2000)

Lincoln wrote The Black Muslims in America, Coming Through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America, The Black Church Since Frazier, The Black Church in the African American Experience, and This Road Since Freedom. His first novel, The Avenue, Clayton City, won the 1988 Lillian Smith Award for Best Southern Fiction and the International Black Writers’ Alice Browning Award.

Fellowship of Southern Writers A. R. Ammons James Applewhite Richard Bausch Madison Smartt Bell Wendell Berry Doris Betts Joseph Blotner Cleanth Brooks Fred Chappell George Core James Dickey Ellen Douglas Clyde Edgerton Ralph Ellison Horton Foote Shelby Foote John Hope Franklin Ernest J. Gaines George Garrett Kaye Gibbons Gail Godwin Allan Gurganus Barry Hannah Beth Henley William Hoffman Josephine Humphreys Blyden Jackson Madison Jones Donald Justice Yusef Komunyakaa C. Eric Lincoln Romulus Linney Andrew Lytle Bobbie Ann Mason Jill McCorkle Marsha Norman Walker Percy Reynolds Price John Shelton Reed Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Mary Lee Settle Lewis P. Simpson Dave Smith Lee Smith Monroe K. Spears Elizabeth Spencer William Styron Walter Sullivan Henry Taylor Peter Taylor Ellen Bryant Voigt Robert Penn Warren Eudora Welty Allen Wier C. Vann Woodward Charles Wright

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