Gumbo

by Mack Thomas

Authored by one of the great intellectual, literary minds of the 20th century, this is an autobiography of about 13 short stories, each a year in the authors life, but told from the point of view at that age. The author writes of life in a poor family in a cotton mill town in Texas. In "Folksong," a young child plays jazz clarinet on the banks of a pond with the frogs one night in summer. Thomas wrote the Jazz Column for the Evergreen Review and liner notes for Jazz Albums, and claimed jazz was the folk song of the 20th century. This book was serialized in the Saturday Evening Post.

152 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1964