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Tag Archives: MacKinlay Kantor
Andersonville Offers Wonderful Writing Amidst Horrific Suffering
Every so often as we read, we writers run into a sentence that is so spot-on perfect that we say, “Damn, I wish I’d written that.” Such writer-envy is not uncommon, and at its heart, it springs from a deep … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Civil War in Pop Culture
Tagged Andersonville, Henry Wirz, John H. Winder, MacKinlay Kantor, novels, pop culture, Pulitzer Prize, writing
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Favorite Childhood Civil War Books
We all have a favorite Civil War book which we read, and re-read, as a kid, which probably turned us on to the War as much as anything else. Well, one of my favorites, checked out of the Margaret Mitchell Elementary School … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Books & Authors, Memory
Tagged John McCardell, MacKinlay Kantor, Margaret Mitchell
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