LITERARY NEW ORLEANS

Judy Long | Editor
Patricia Brady | Foreword

• $16.95 paperback with flaps
• 320
• 1-892514-05-2
• Anthology

The definitive literary portrait of the capital of Southern belles lettres including illuminating vignettes of fact and fiction.

the book

New Orleans is a melting pot that has been stirred by French, Spanish, African, and Carribean influences. From the labyrinthine cobblestone streets of the Vieux Carré, the somber elegance of the Garden District, and the bayous and banks of the Mississippi River to the above-ground St. Louis Cemetery, sexy steamy Storyville, and Tin Pan Alley, the Crescent City is one of the longest running literary salons in American history. It is also a city of many contradictions, mysteries, and surprises that have been celebrated the world over. Whether born there or simply passing through, writers have been inspired by New Orleans for centuries, and, in the pages of Literary New Orleans, her stories are finally told.

CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE:

Sherwood Anderson Louis Armstrong John James Audubon Arna Bontemps Sheila Bosworth James Lee Burke Robert Olen Butler George Washington Cable Truman Capote Pierre F.X. de Charlevoix Kate Chopin Andrei Codrescu Tom Dent Adelaide Stuart Dimitry Tony Dunbar Alice Dunbar-Nelson William Faulkner Henry Bradshaw Fearon

Ellen Gilchrist Sister Hachard de Saint-Stanislas Lafacadio Hearn Lilliam Hellman O. Henry Zora Neale Hurston Thomas Jefferson Grace King Brenda Marie Osbey Walker Percy De Rémonville Ishmael Reed Lyle Saxon John Kennedy Toole Mark Twain Walt Whitman Tennessee Williams Christine Wiltz

the editor

Judy Long is editor-in-chief at Hill Street Press.

Patricia Brady is a researcher at the Historic New Orleans Collection and the author of many books.

also of interest:  Literary Savannah

also of interest:  Literary Nashville