70,932| Born | Josephine Ayres Haxton, July 12, 1921, Natchez, Mississippi |
| Died | November 7, 2012 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Mississippi |
| Notable works | A Family's Affairs (1961) Black Cloud, White Cloud (1963) Where The Dreams Cross (1968) Apostles of Light (Houghton Mifflin 1973) The Rock Cried Out (1979) A Lifetime Burning (Random House 1982) A Long Night (1986) The Magic Carpet and Other Tales (1987) Can't Quit You, Baby (Scribner 1988) Truth: Four Stories I Am Finally Old Enough to Tell (Algonquin Books 1998) Witnessing (University Press of Mississippi 2004) |
| Notable awards | "On the Lake", one of Douglas's short stories, was included in the O. Henry collection in 1961. A Family's Affairs was awarded the Houghton Mifflin fellowship in 1961 and was recognized as one of the five best novels of the year by The New York Times. Black Cloud, White Cloud was named one of the five best works of fiction by The New York Times in 1963. In 1973 Apostles of Light was nominated for the National Book Award by the National Book Committee. Awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in 1976 The Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for literature in 1979 and 1983. Recognized as the first recipient of the Hillsdale Prize for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers |
| Children | Richardson Ayres Haxton, Brooks Haxton, Richard Haxton |
About Ellen Douglas
Novelist Ellen Douglas was born on July 12, 1921 in Natchez, Mississippi, United States (She dies at the age of 91, on November 7, 2012).
She is most known for her National Book Award-nominated novel, Apostles of Light, about the mistreatment of patients of an elder care facility. She was born in Mississippi. Where the Dreams Cross (1968) and The Rock Cried Out (1969) are two of her other works (1979).
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Ellen Douglas before becoming famous
Ellen Douglas was born in the Zodiac sign Cancer (The Crab), and 1921 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Rooster (雞).
Her real name was Josephine Ayres Haxton, but she went by the pen name Novelist Ellen Douglas to safeguard her identity.
Achievement of Ellen Douglas
Several of her works are concerned with race relations and women's roles in society.
Ellen Douglas's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship
She was born in Natchez, Mississippi, and spent her childhood in Louisiana and Arkansas, moving about the South. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Mississippi in 1942.
Ellen Douglas Collabed with
In interviews, she stated that she was influenced by Novelist William Faulkner, a great Southern author.
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