2009 Official Alabama Vacation Guide - (Page 15) left ••• right Montgomery’s Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Red Door Theatre in Union Springs, and “To Kill a Mockingbird” play in Monroeville. Invisible Man. Winner of the National Book Award in 1953, the novel addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing antebellum African-American identity, including the relationship between this identity and the reformist policies of Booker T. Washington. 334-727-8347. www.tuskegee.edu WILLIAM BRADFORD “BILL” HUIE, HARTSELLE A journalist, editor, publisher, screenwriter, lecturer, and novelist, William Bradford Huie was born in Hartselle and educated at the University of Alabama. His first novel, Mud on the Stars, chronicled the education of a north Alabama boy during the Depression and the events leading up to World War II. His name, however, would become forever associated with controversy when he wrote about the murder of a black teenager in Mississippi named Emmett Till for Look magazine. Two white men had been acquitted in the slaying. Huie felt that the truth behind the shocking murder would never be revealed unless it was told by a journalist. A crusader for civil rights, Huie was the author of more than 20 novels and works of nonfiction, many of which concerned violence and the Civil Rights Movement. William Bradford Huie Library, 152 Sparkman St. 256-773-9880. The Alabama Journal, and The Selma Times-Journal. She is known across America for her storytelling and is best known for her Jeffrey series of ghost stories. A museum named in Windham’s honor, housed on the campus of Alabama Southern Community College in her hometown, takes visitors through the writer’s early childhood, her career as a journalist, and her rise to national attention as a storyteller. 334-636-9642, ext. 646. www.ascc.edu LILLIAN HELLMAN AND WILLIAM WYLER, DEMOPOLIS Before Lillian Hellman’s Demopolis play, The Little Foxes, electrified Broadway in 1939, she was already an acclaimed playwright and Hollywood collaborator with William Wyler. Visitors can celebrate the works of these two great artists with remarkable family connections to 19th-century Alabama during the biennial Demopolis Pilgrimage sponsored by the Marengo County Historical Society. The pilgrimage features more than a dozen 19th- and early 20th-century sites, including Lyon Hall and Bluff Hall, inspirations for Lillian Hellman’s Lionnet Plantation in The Little Foxes. The bank built by her great grandfather Isaac Marx will also be a part of the tour. Isaac Marx is considered the first Jewish settler in Demopolis. www.southernliterarytrail.org several books and essays, including his evocative portrait of Mobile in 1929. By special resolution of the city of Mobile, he was buried in the city’s historic Church Street Graveyard, where such notables as Joe Cain, Gen. Edmund P. Gaines, and James Roper are also interred. William March, also born in Mobile, was a World War II veteran, short-story writer, and novelist. March’s writings characterized deep compassion and understanding and touched on such subjects as class, family conflict, sexuality, and race. His novel, The Bad Seed, published in 1954, was a critical and commercial success, widely praised by for its use of suspense and horror. 800-5-MOBILE. Literary buffs may also want to consider reading the works of Winston Groom, Clyde Bolton, Mark Childress, Rick Bragg, Daniel Wallace, Fannie Flagg, Wayne Flynt, Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton, and numerous other writers who were born in or have ties to Alabama. For additional information on literary programs, contact the Alabama Humanities Foundation at www.ahf.net, the Southern Literary Trail, www.southernliterartrail.org, or the Alabama Writers Forum at www.writersforum.org. w w w. a l a b a m a . t r a v e l 15 KATHRYN TUCKER WINDHAM MUSEUM, THOMASVILLE Kathryn Tucker Windham is a native of Thomasville and a longtime resident of Selma. She was educated at Huntingdon College in Montgomery and wrote for The Birmingham News, EUGENE WALTER AND WILLIAM MARCH, MOBILE An American screenwriter, poet, author, actor, and editor, Eugene Walter was born and raised in Mobile. Over the course of his lifetime, he wrote http://www.tuskegee.edu http://www.ascc.edu http://www.southernliterarytrail.org http://www.ahf.net http://www.southernliterarytrail.org http://www.writersforum.org http://www.alabama.travel
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