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The novel follows young Naomi on a plantation in Faunsdale, Alabama, who kills her master after being told that her sister will be forced to take her mother’s place in a supervised rape by male slaves for the purpose of breeding. [40] Naomi escapes and takes refuge at a brothel. She escapes from there a few years later, pregnant by a white man.
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a 1987 novel by American author Fannie Flagg.Set in Alabama, it weaves together the past and the present through the blossoming friendship between Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged housewife, and Ninny Threadgoode, an elderly woman who lives in a nursing home.
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Dec. 2—Proposed rules pushed by Gov. Kay Ivey that would place various restrictions on "inappropriate" books for children, including where public libraries shelve them, amount to censorship ...
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 is a historical-fiction novel by Christopher Paul Curtis.First published in 1995 by Delacorte Press, it was reprinted in 1997. It tells the story of the Watsons, a lower middle class African-American family living in Flint, Michigan in the early 1960s from the perspective of Kenny Watson, the middle child of three.
The Alabama Book Festival is an annual literary festival held since 2006 [1] in Montgomery, AlabamaIn the past, it has been sponsored by the Alabama Center for the Book (formerly on the Auburn University campus, in the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities and now at the University of Alabama). [2]
A native of Alabama, she earned her undergraduate degree at Randolph Macon Woman's College, then earned her master's and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She soon became chair of the department.