{"id":1039,"date":"2012-10-11T18:49:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T01:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2018-01-09T11:51:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T18:51:33","slug":"deal-borden-1922-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1039","title":{"rendered":"DEAL, BORDEN, 1922-1985"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Novelist. Born– October 12, 1922, Pontotoc, Mississippi. Parents– Borden Lee and Jimmie Anne (Smith) Deal. Married–(1)\u00a0Lillian Slobtotsky, 1950. One child. (2)\u00a0Babs Hodges, 1952. Children-three. (3) Patricia Deal. \u00a0Education–attended business school in Jackson, Mississippi; \u00a0University of Alabama, B.A., 1949; graduate study at Mexico City College 1950. Military service U. S. Navy 1942-45.\u00a0Published his first short story in 1948; worked at various short-term jobs until 1955, when his first novel was published. Published over one hundred stories as well as reviews, essays, and\u00a0 novels. Member of the Authors Guild. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1967; a McDowell Colony Fellowship; the Literary Award\u00a0of the Alabama Library Association, 1963. Designated “Sesquicentennial Scholar”, during the University of Alabama’s 150th Anniversary, 1981.\u00a0 Died January 22, 1985.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online; \u00a0Alabama Alumni News, Vol. 65, Number 4, and files at Alabama Public Library Service.<\/p>\n

Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967.\u00a0 Jackson:\u00a0 University Press of Mississippi, 1981.<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adventure. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1978.<\/p>\n

The Advocate. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1968.<\/p>\n

Bluegrass. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1976.<\/p>\n

The Devil’s Whisper. New York; Avon, 1961.<\/p>\n

Dragon’s Wine. New York; Scribner, 1960.<\/p>\n

Dunbar’s Cove. New York; Scribner, 1957.<\/p>\n

The Insolent Breed. New York; Scribner, 1959.<\/p>\n

Interstate. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1970.<\/p>\n

Killer in the House. New York; New American Library, 1957.<\/p>\n

The Least One. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1967.<\/p>\n

A Long Way to Go. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1965.<\/p>\n

The Loser. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1964.<\/p>\n

A Neo-Socratic Dialogue on the Reluctant Empire. Baldwyn, Miss.; Outlaw Press, 1971.<\/p>\n

Search for Surrender. Greenwich, Conn.; Gold Medal, 1957.<\/p>\n

The Other Room.\u00a0 Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.<\/p>\n

The Secret of Sylvia. Greenwich, Conn.; Gold Medal, 1958.\u00a0 [as Lee Borden].<\/p>\n

The Spangled Road. New York; Scribner, 1962.<\/p>\n

There Were Also Strangers. Far Hills, N.J.; New Horizon Press, 1985.<\/p>\n

The Tobacco Men. New York; Holt, 1965.<\/p>\n

Walk Through the Valley. New York; Scribner, 1950.<\/p>\n

Papers; <\/strong><\/p>\n

The papers of Borden Deal are held by Boston University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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