SOUTHERN CHRISTMAS

Literary Classics of the Holidays
Judy Long | Editor
Thomas Payton | Editor

• $15.95 paperback
• 224 pages
• 1-892514-08-7
• Christmas | Anthology

At last, a rich collection of Southern Christmas classics as diverse as the region itself!

the book

Christmas has always captured the hearts of southern writers. Southern Christmas is an anthology of twenty-eight classic pieces of fiction, memoir, poetry, and letters by many of the most-loved southern writers spanning one hundred and fifty years. From Harper Lee's account of her Christmas in New York and the surprise gift that enabled her to ultimately complete her masterpiece novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Celestine Sibley's classic reminiscence of a downtown newspaper lady working the holidays, to acclaimed new novelist, Shay Youngblood's gothic tale of a housekeeper spending her holidays plotting revenge for the racial callousness of her boss and the poignancy of Langston Hughes' "One Christmas Eve," Southern Christmas has something for everyone. This refreshing anthology crosses lines of race, gender, and class to paint a heartwarming variety of christmas portraits.

CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE

Rick Bragg Truman Capote Mary Boykin Chesnut Alice Childress James Dickey Alice Dunbar-Nelson Ernest J. Gaines Alex Haley O. Henry Langston Hughes Terry Kay Harper Lee Robert E. Lee Bobbie Ann Mason

Ogden Nash Collin Wilcox Paxton Julia Peterkin Katherine Anne Porter Dori Sanders Celestine Sibley Lee Smith Lillian Smith Mark Twain Margaret Walker Robert Penn Warren Eudora Welty Joan Williams Shay Youngblood

the editors

Thomas Payton is president of Hill Street Press.

Judy Long is editor-in-shief of Hill Street Press.

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