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An Interview with Lewis Nordan

An Interview with Lewis Nordan Lewis Nordan Lewis Nordan's books include Music of the Swamp, Wolf Whistle, The Sharpshooter Blues and Sugar Among the Freaks. A native of Itta Bena, Mississippi, Nordan earned acclaim with his landmark novel, Wolf Whistle, which won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and other national prizes. His last three books have all won Best Fiction Awards from the National Library Association and his novel, The Sharpshooter Blues won this year's Literature Award of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In early September of 1996, Nordan appeared as a guest of the River City Writers Series at the University of Memphis. During this visit, he participated in the foUowing interview conducted by Mark Ledbetter and Russell Ingram. The River City Writers Series, sponsored by the Creative Writing Program of the University of Memphis, is in its twentieth year of presenting award-winning American and international authors to the people of Memphis and the Mid-South. An Interview with and Mark Ledbetter Lewis Nordan/ Russell Ingram Interviewer: On a certain level, most good writers seem to be obsessed with telling the same story throughout their fiction. They keep returning to a story again and again, trying to illuminate it, make some sense http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Missouri Review University of Missouri

An Interview with Lewis Nordan

Nordan, Lewis
The Missouri Review , Volume 20 (1) – Oct 5, 1997
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Lewis Nordan Lewis Nordan's books include Music of the Swamp, Wolf Whistle, The Sharpshooter Blues and Sugar Among the Freaks. A native of Itta Bena, Mississippi, Nordan earned acclaim with his landmark novel, Wolf Whistle, which won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and other national prizes. His last three books have all won Best Fiction Awards from the National Library Association and his novel, The Sharpshooter Blues won this year's Literature Award of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In early September of 1996, Nordan appeared as a guest of the River City Writers Series at the University of Memphis. During this visit, he participated in the foUowing interview conducted by Mark Ledbetter and Russell Ingram. The River City Writers Series, sponsored by the Creative Writing Program of the University of Memphis, is in its twentieth year of presenting award-winning American and international authors to the people of Memphis and the Mid-South. An Interview with and Mark Ledbetter Lewis Nordan/ Russell Ingram Interviewer: On a certain level, most good writers seem to be obsessed with telling the same story throughout their fiction. They keep returning to a story again and again, trying to illuminate it, make some sense

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The Missouri Review – University of Missouri

Published: Oct 5, 1997

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