Excerpts from the collection "Encounters with Authors":

　　WRITERS OF THE SOUTH

　　* "Waiting for Tennessee" - an account of the troubled premiere of playwright Tennessee Williams' "Tiger Tail"

　　* "A Pilgrimage to Cross Creek" - a journalist journeys to the source of novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' inspiration to speak with those who knew and loved her

　　* "The Joy of Eugenia Price" - the Georgia-based author of historical romances lifts her genre into a spiritual dimension while explaining why she does not regard herself as a Christian novelist

　　* "Harry Crews of Bacon County" - a conversation with the renegade novelist and journalist

　　* "The Pride of Oklawaha" - humorist Gamble Rogers explains why "sorry is as sorry does"

　　PLUS A BONUS SHORT STORY: Dale Andrew White's "The South's Greatest Writer" - meet the incorrigible but unforgettable Hannah Rath

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