{"id":1283,"date":"2019-10-16T11:08:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2019-10-18T13:13:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T18:13:33","slug":"alabama-writers-hall-of-fame-inductees-announced-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/2019\/10\/16\/alabama-writers-hall-of-fame-inductees-announced-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Writers Hall of Fame Inductees Announced for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Alabama Writers Hall of Fame 2020<\/p>\n

TUSCALOOSA, Ala.  \u2014 Seven distinguished authors will be inducted into the 2020 Alabama Writers Hall of Fame at The University of Alabama\u2019s Bryant Conference Center March 9, 2020.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s inductees include Mark Childress<\/a>, Faye Gibbons,<\/a> Carolyn Haines,<\/a>  Honor\u00e9e Fanonne Jeffers<\/a> and Michael Knight<\/a>. Authors Ralph Ellison<\/a> and Zelda Fitzgerald<\/a> will be inducted posthumously.<\/p>\n

A reception will be held in the authors\u2019 honor at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 7 p.m. The induction ceremony will immediately follow dinner.<\/p>\n

Individual tickets and sponsor tables can be purchased by contacting Emily Burnett at emburnett@ua.edu<\/a> or 205-348-5543.<\/p>\n

The Alabama Writers Hall of Fame was created in 2014 by a partnership between the Alabama Center for the Book<\/a>, UA Libraries<\/a> and the Alabama Writers\u2019 Forum<\/a>. Dr. Donald Gilstrap, dean of UA Libraries, said the gala showcases Alabama\u2019s literary heritage as well as its contemporary prize-winning authors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year we are honoring writers who are well-known for award-winning fiction, poetry, screen-writing, and writing for children and young adults, as well as two ground-breaking 20th-century authors,\u201d Gilstrap said. \u201cThe variety of genres underscores the level of literary talent in Alabama. We hope people will celebrate their achievements with us in March.\u201d<\/p>\n

Childress is a native of Monroeville and a UA graduate. He\u2019s the author of seven novels translated into 14 languages, as well as screenplays, children\u2019s books, numerous articles, essays and reviews. He adapted his best-selling novel, \u201cCrazy in Alabama,\u201d into the screenplay for the Columbia Pictures film directed by Antonio Banderas.<\/p>\n

A long-time resident of Deatsville, Gibbons has written more than a dozen children\u2019s picture books and young adult novels that focus on life in the rural South since the 1980s.<\/p>\n

Haines is a Lucedale, Mississippi native who lives in Semmes. She is a \u201cUSA Today\u201d bestselling author of more than 80 books of fiction.<\/p>\n

Jeffers was born in Kokomo, Indiana and grew up in Durham, North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia, but she was educated in Alabama, with degrees from Talladega College and UA. Jeffers has published widely in poetry, fiction and essays, and she has four poetry collections, with a fifth, \u201cThe Age of Phillis,\u201d scheduled to be published in early 2020.<\/p>\n

Knight is the author of two novels, three collections of short stories and a book of novellas. His most recent collection of stories, \u201cEveningland,\u201d was selected as an Editor\u2019s Choice Pick by The New York Times and a Southern Book of the Year by Southern Living <\/em>magazine.<\/p>\n

Ellison was born in Oklahoma in 1914 and trained as a musician at Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1936. Soon after, he made a visit to New York and met author Richard Wright, which led him to his first attempts at fiction. The result was \u201cInvisible Man,\u201d a first novel by an unknown writer that remained on the bestseller list for 16 weeks and won the National Book Award for fiction. He died in 1994.<\/p>\n

Fitzgerald is a Montgomery native who was an artist, writer and personality who helped to establish the Roaring 20s image of liberated womanhood embodied by the \u201cflapper<\/a>.\u201d She and her husband, novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, became icons of the freedoms and excesses of the 1920s Jazz Age. Her novel, \u201cSave Me the Waltz,\u201d published in 1932, is an autobiographical recounting of her marriage. She died in 1948.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Alabama Writers Hall of Fame inductions present Alabama\u2019s literary arts with distinction, and love,\u201d said Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers\u2019 Forum. \u201cThis is a gala event, with individual tickets as well as tables that can be purchased in honor of a past inductee, or to celebrate one of the incoming inductees.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alabama Writers Hall of Fame 2020 TUSCALOOSA, Ala.  \u2014 Seven distinguished authors will be inducted into the 2020 Alabama Writers Hall of Fame at The University of Alabama\u2019s Bryant Conference Center March 9, 2020. This year\u2019s inductees include Mark Childress, Faye Gibbons, Carolyn Haines,  Honor\u00e9e Fanonne Jeffers and Michael Knight. Authors Ralph Ellison and Zelda Fitzgerald will be inducted posthumously. A reception will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}