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312:(with Allen Tate) (1950)
28:Caroline Ferguson Gordon
1216:Novelists from Kentucky
649:"Emmanuele! Emmanuele!"
639:(October-December 1950)
594:(October-December 1945)
579:The Forest of the South
506:The Forest of the South
361:The Forest of the South
285:The Forest of the South
279:Short story collections
66:and became a writer of
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1090:Essays of Four Decades
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494:"The Brilliant Leaves"
386:(July-September 1931)
254:The Women on the Porch
228:Aleck Maury, Sportsman
102:Clarksville, Tennessee
76:Chattanooga, Tennessee
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881:Frank Lawrence Owsley
876:Herman Clarence Nixon
769:The Rebuke of History
604:"The Petrified Woman"
163:Princeton, New Jersey
116:, Flannery O'Connor,
52:Todd County, Kentucky
36:Guggenheim Fellowship
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935:Lee in the Mountains
665:"One Against Thebes"
474:"B From Bull's Foot"
260:The Strange Children
242:The Garden of Adonis
235:None Shall Look Back
159:Monteagle, Tennessee
112:, Ernest Hemingway,
72:Chattanooga Reporter
953:The American Review
871:Andrew Nelson Lytle
851:John Gould Fletcher
684:The Southern Review
533:The Southern Review
527:"Her Quaint Honour"
519:The Southern Review
484:Scribner's Magazine
467:Scribner's Magazine
456:Scribner's Magazine
445:Scribner's Magazine
396:Scribner's Magazine
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322:How to Read a Novel
139:Scribner's Magazine
110:F. Scott Fitzgerald
95:Patterson, New York
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1164:Southern Agrarians
901:Robert Penn Warren
818:Southern Agrarians
776:2012-01-19 at the
653:The Sewanee Review
637:The Sewanee Review
591:The Sewanee Review
586:"The Olive Garden"
575:"The Burning Eyes"
544:Maryland Quarterly
514:a.k.a. "The Enemy"
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886:John Crowe Ransom
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272:The Glory of Hera
174:Flannery O'Connor
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1102:Works about
1080:The Fathers
1061:Prose books
911:Stark Young
341:Publication
304:Other works
187:Catholicism
118:T. S. Eliot
1251:Allen Tate
1180:Categories
1025:Allen Tate
891:Allen Tate
826:Associated
698:References
672:Shenandoah
546:#1 (1944)
130:Guggenheim
91:Hart Crane
83:Allen Tate
1157:Fugitives
1151:(retreat)
1149:Riverview
959:Fugitives
920:Key works
428:"Old Red"
371:Gyroscope
354:Gyroscope
56:Woodstock
46:Biography
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132:and the
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