Famous Southerners (T-Z)
This section covers Famous Southerns T to Z. Famous Southerners from A to G are here, Famous Southerners from H to M are here, and Famous Southerners from N to S are here.
Allen Tate
Exiles and Fugitives: The Letters of Jacques and Raîssa Maritain, Allen Tate, and Carolina Gordon
John M. Dunaway, editor
reviewed by Alphonse Vinh
Southern Cultures, Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 1994
James "Son Ford" Thomas
The Devil and his Blues: James “Son Ford” Thomas
with William R. Ferris
“You can't always go by what them preachers say, because right now some of them drink more whiskey than me.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 15, Number 3, Fall 2009: Music III
Haunting America: Emmett Till in Music and Song
by Philip C. Kolin
“Dylan linked Till’s innocent blood to a Mississippi downpour—so much blood shed from the brutal beatings; Till’s killers ‘rolled his body down a gulf of bloody red rain.’”
Southern Cultures, Volume 15, Number 3, Fall 2009: Music III
Christopher Metress, editor
The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative (review)
reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield
“After all, once Moses Wright pointed his finger at ‘Big’ Milam in court, the identity of the killers was not in doubt.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 9, Number 4, Winter 2003
"Pitchfork Ben" Tillman
The Youngest Living Yankee Carpetbagger Tells All:
Or, How Regional Myopia Created “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman
by Stephen Kantrowitz
“It won’t shock readers of Southern Cultures to learn that when northerners begin to study the South, they bring along what we’ll just agree to call misconceptions.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 8, Number 3, Fall 2002: Biography
John Kennedy Toole
René Pol Nevils and Deborah George Hardy
Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole (review)
reviewed by Bryan Giemza
“I don’t intend to suggest that sexual matters are always beyond the pale. No, the sin of it is simply this: the claims in the book are very thin indeed.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2004
Kwame Ture
Kwame Ture
Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael
reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield
“In August 1967 the director of the FBI urged his agents to ‘prevent the rise of a messiah who would unify and electrify the militant black nationalist movement.’"
Southern Cultures, Volume 10, Number 4, Winter 2004
George Wallace
Dan Carter's
From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994
reviewed by Ferrel Guillory
Southern Cultures, Volume 3, Number 4, Winter 1997
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren: "Mad for Poetry"
by William R. Ferris
“I said, ‘Couldn’t we go a little slower?’ And he said, ‘With a white man sitting in this front seat with me? You won’t catch me going less than ninety miles an hour. Mister, you’ll just have to take it. I’m saving your life.’”
Southern Cultures, Volume 10, Number 4, Winter 2004
Doc Watson
Doc Watson on the Cicada Concert
poetry by R. T. Smith
"I wish they’d get tired of tuning and play."
Southern Cultures, Volume 12, Number 4, Winter 2006: Music I
Gertrude Weil
Gertrude Weil and Her Times
by Anne Firor Scott
"'Who knows? I may live long enough to become a communist!'"
Southern Cultures, Volume 13, Number 1, Spring 2007
Eudora Welty
A Valentine for Miss Welty
by Ann Taylor Peden
"Thank you, heart lady."
Southern Cultures, Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 2005
Eudora Welty: "... standing under a shower of blessings"
by William R. Ferris
“One, two, three. I just waded out...through the muck. And then I got in his sailboat. Of course I was wet, but you can’t ask William Faulkner to wring you out, I guess. It hadn’t occurred to me until this minute that I might have.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 9, Number 3, Fall 2003
Killers Real and Imagined
by Doris Betts
Real-life tragedy is the genesis for lasting art when the murder of Medgar Evers sparks the muse of Eudora Welty.
Southern Cultures, Volume 5, Number 4, Winter 1999
Bukka White
"Fixin' To Die Blues": The Last Months of Bukka White
with an afterword from B. B. King on Bukka White's Legacy
interviewed by David W. Johnson
"There's a gang that would travel if you get on a freight train and couldn't get off. If I'd stayed on there I'd been getting killed."
Full Issue for Kindle ($7.96), for Nook ($7.96), or for Sony Reader ($9.45)
Southern Cultures, Volume 16, Number 3, Fall 2010: Music IV
Ella May Wiggins
Mill Mother's Lament: Ella May Wiggins and the Gastonia Textile Strike of 1929
by Patrick Huber
“Ella May Wiggins, the ‘poet laureate’ of the Gastonia Textile Strike of 1929, was silenced by a mill thug’s bullet on September 14, 1929.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 15, Number 3, Fall 2009: Music III
Hank Williams
King of the Hillbillies: Hank Williams
by Bland Simpson
"They stopped at a gas station in Andalusia, Alabama, and found a justice of the peace who had a Bible and the right forms to fill out and on top of that was sober."
Southern Cultures, Volume 12, Number 4, Winter 2006: Music I
Robert F. Williams
Robert F. Williams and the Promise of Southern Biography
by Timothy B. Tyson
“But nonetheless I have been lurking in the shadows, plotting and sulking like one of William Faulkner’s vindictive barn-burners.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 8, Number 3, Fall 2002: Biography
Mark Royden Winchell
Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism
by Mark Royden Winchell
reviewed by Michael Kreyling
Southern Cultures, Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 1997: Writers on Art
William F. Winter
Reimagining the South
by William F. Winter
"Now it is time to talk about what we are called on to do in this latter day South. Now it is time for us to have an accounting of just where we are."
Southern Cultures, Volume 11, Number 3, Fall 2005
Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe's
A Man in Full
reviewed by John Shelton Reed
Southern Cultures, Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 1999
A Love Letter to Thomas Wolfe
by Pat Conroy
The author of The Great Santini reveals a long admiration for the author of Look Homeward, Angel.
Southern Cultures, Volume 5, Number 3, Fall 1999
Richard Wright
David A. Taylor
Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America
reviewed by Robert Hunt Ferguson
"Although they approached their writing very differently, Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright found the space through the WPA to write compassionately and realistically about black life in America."
Full Issue for Kindle ($7.96), for Nook ($7.96), or for Sony Reader ($9.45)
Southern Cultures, Volume 16, Number 4, Winter 2010
FAMOUS SOUTHERNERS (A-G)
FAMOUS SOUTHERNERS (H-M)
FAMOUS SOUTHERNERS (N-S)