Co-author:

Prattville, Alabama: A Brief history of the Fountain City.  History Press, 2012.

Co-author;

Prattville, Alabama: A Brief History of the Fountain City.  History Press, 2012.

Sources;

Biographical sketch in Don Noble, ed., Climbing Mt. Cheaha; Emerging Alabama Writers. Livingston Press, 2004.

Contemporary Authors online.

Publications;

In a Temple of Trees.  San Francisco; MacAdam/Cage Publishing Co. , 2003.

In the Dark of the Moon.  MacAdam/Cage, 2005.

Opposable Thumbs.  Livingston Press at the University of West Alabama, 2001.

Contributor;

William Gay and Suzanne Kingsbury, The Alumni Grille, MacAdam/Cage, 2004.

Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe’, vols. I, II, and III.  MacAdam/Cage, 2002-05.

Sources;

American National Biography online.

Bain, Robert, and Flora, Joseph M.  Fifty Southern Writers before 1900.  New York; Greenwood Press, 1987.

Publications;

Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers… Philadelphia; Carey and Hart, 1845.

A Ride with Old Kit Kuncker, and Other Sketches and Scenes of Alabama. Tuscaloosa; M.D. J. Slade, 1849.

The Widow Rugby’s Husband, a Night at the Ugly Man’s, and Other Tales of Alabama.  Philadelphia; A. Hart, 1851.

Read and Circulate; Proceedings of the Democratic and Anti-Know-Nothing Party in Caucus, or the Guillotine at Work.  Montgomery:  Barret and Wimbish, 1855.

Dog and Gun; A Few Loose Chapters on Shooting. New York; C.M.Saxton & Co., 1856.

Simon Suggs’ Adventures and Travels, Comprising All of the Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures of his Travels… with Widow Rugby’s Husband and Twenty-six other Humorous Tales of  Alabama.      Philadelphia:  T. B. Peterson, 1856. 

Papers;

A collection of Hooper Family papers is held in the Southern History Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Lawyer; author.  Born– November 22, 1823, Milton (Caswell County), North Carolina (moved to Alabama in 1835).  Parents– Thomas and Mary Jane Gorman Barr. Education– University of Alabama, B.A., 1841, M.A., 1842. Read law with Attorney Harvey Ellis in Tuscaloosa; admitted to the bar in 1843. Served in the Mexican War; rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel.  Practiced law in Tuscaloosa; managing editor of the Tuscaloosa Observer. Published humorous stories based on daily life in Alabama in the New York weekly newspaper Spirit of the Times.  Campaigned for a Congressional seat in 1857-58, but withdrew from the race to prevent a part split.  Appointed consul to Australia by President James Buchanan, but died on the voyage, May 18, 1858.

Sources;

Beidler, Philip D.  The Art of Fiction in the Heart of Dixie:  An Anthology of Alabama Writers.  University of Alabama Press, 1980.

Hubbs, G. Ward, “Introduction,” to  Rowdy Tales from Early Alabama: The Humor of John Gorman Barr. University of Alabama Press, 1981.

Publications;

Rowdy Tales from Early Alabama: The Humor of John Gorman Barr. University of Alabama Press, 1981.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of John Gorman Barr is held by the W.S.Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.

Author, teacher. Born 1953– Mobile.  Married– Nancy.  Children– one.  Worked in New York City as a journalist, speechwriter, and teacher; later staff writer at the Mobile Register.  Teaches in the Brief Residency MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.  Winner of the Lillian Smith Award for Fiction.

Sources;

Author Profiles in Climbing Mt. Cheaha. Livingston Press, 2004.

Publications;

Alabama Afternoons; Profiles and Conversations.  University of Alabama Press, 2011.

Almost Family.  University of Alabama Press, 2000.

Back Home; Journeys through Mobile.  University of Alabama Press, 2001.

Chicken Dreaming Corn.  University of Georgia Press, 2004.

Writer.  Born in Dickinson, Alabama, 1963.  Married Beth Ann Fennelly; children–two.  Education; University of South Alabama, B.A.; University of Arkansas, M.F.A., 1998.  Taught at University of South Alabama, Bucknell University, Knox College, Galesburg, IL;  Sewanee University, University of Mississippi. Writer-in-Residence, Sewanee University. 2002-03; John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence, University of Mississippi, 2001-02. Published short stories and essays  in journals and anthologies. Guggenheim Fellow, 2001; Edgar Award for best short story for Poachers.

Sources;

Contemporary Authors online.

Author profile in Climbing Mt. Cheaha. Livingston Press, 2004.

Publications;

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter.  New York; William Morrow, 2010.

Hell at the Breach.  New York; Morrow, 2003.

Poachers.  New York; Morrow, 1999.

Smonk.  New York; William Morrow, 2006.

Contributor;

The Alumni Grill; Anthology of Southern Writers.  San Francisco; McAdam/Cage, 2004.

Climbing Mt. Cheaha; Emerging Alabama Writers.  University of West Alabama; Livingston Press, 2004.

Created by Nancy DuPree, 01/22/2013