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Ellen Douglas


Born
in Natchez, Mississippi, The United States
July 12, 1921

Died
November 07, 2012

Genre
Fiction


Ellen Douglas is the pseudonym for Josephine Haxton, whose family roots extend back to the earliest settlements in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Her fiction has won many prizes, including the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, the Hillsdale Prize for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award.

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Average rating: 3.84 · 524 ratings · 78 reviews · 37 distinct works • Similar authors
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Where the Dreams Cross
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Witnessing
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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“But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?”
― Ellen Douglas, A Lifetime Burning
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“When she thinks a book is very good, what she says to herself is: yes, that's how things are. I hadn't thought of it before, but that's how things are.”
― Ellen Douglas, Witnessing
tags: books, life, mississippi-authors, reading
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“Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.”
― Ellen Douglas, Witnessing
tags: books, life, mississippi-authors
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