A House Divided is Jeff Caldwell's story, an account of how a dirt-poor white boy from central Louisiana survived his own turbulent family, the cultural, educational and material deprivations of the Great Depression and the horrors of World War II to stand for justice. Winner of the William Faulkner Prize (2000) for fiction.
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Fredrick Barton, an award-winning fiction writer and critic, holds a B.A. from Valparaiso University and did graduate work under a Danforth Fellowship, taking degrees from UCLA and the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Currently he is Interim Provost, Dean of Liberal Arts and Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, where he teaches fiction writing and film criticism. He has written on film since 1980 for the New Orleans weekly Gambit and since 1989 for The Cresset, a national review of literature, the arts, and public affairs. Mr. Barton has also authored three other novels, The El Cholo Feeling Passes (currently available in a new edition from University of New Orleans Press Classics), Courting Pandemonium, and With Extreme Prejudice, as well as a play in verse, Ash Wednesday.
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House Divided, Fredrick Barton, New Orleans, George Washington Brown, Reverend Brown, Jeff Caldwell, New Peterstown, Ben Watson, Baton Rouge, Miss Perkins, Rufus Johnson, Mary Frances, Preacher Martin, Agent Mason, Peggy Holt, Faye Watson, Everett Essex, Jim Crow, Davis Patterson, Johnny Davis, Billye Monroe, Four Gospels, Jesse Kardowski, Robert Brown, Farley Smithson Browse Sample Pages:
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House Divided, Fredrick Barton, New Orleans, George Washington Brown, Reverend Brown, Jeff Caldwell, New Peterstown, Ben Watson, Baton Rouge, Miss Perkins, Rufus Johnson, Mary Frances, Preacher Martin, Agent Mason, Peggy Holt, Faye Watson, Everett Essex, Jim Crow, Davis Patterson, Johnny Davis, Billye Monroe, Four Gospels, Jesse Kardowski, Robert Brown, Farley Smithson Browse Sample Pages:
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