Ellen Gilchrist (born February 20, 1935) was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She was raised on a plantation owned by her maternal grandparents. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and studied creative writing under Eudora Welty at Millsaps College. Gilchrist has been married and divorced numerous times and has three children. Her book Victory Over Japan won the National Book Award in 1984. She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas and Ocean Springs, Mississippi. February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Vicksburg is a city located in Warren County, Mississippi, 234 miles (377 km) north by west of New Orleans on the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. ... The National Book Award is one of the most important literary prizes in the United States, presented annually for the best books by living U.S. citizens published in the U.S. The awards have been presented since 1950 in at least one category, and are presently awarded in each... For the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers Metropolitan Area see Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metropolitan area Fayetteville is a city located in Washington County, Arkansas, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 58,047. ... Location of city of Ocean Springs, Mississippi (right) on the Gulf of Mexico Ocean Springs is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, about 2 miles east of Biloxi. ...
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Partial list of books
The Land Surveyor's Daughter (1979) poetry
In the Land of Dreamy Dreams (1981) short stories
The Annunciation (1983) novel
Victory Over Japan (1984) short stories
Drunk with Love (1986) short stories
Falling Through Space (1987) essays
The Anna Papers (1988) novel
Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle (1989) short stories
Net of Jewels (1992) novel
Starcarbon (1994) novel
Anabasis (1994) novel
Rhoda(1995) short stories
The Courts of Love (1996) short stories
Sarah Conley (1997) novel
Flights of Angels (1998) short stories
The Cabal (2000) novel
Collected Stories (2000) short stories
I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting With My Daddy (2002) short stories
EllenGilchrist was born in the Mississippi Delta in Issaquena County.
EllenGilchrist's first collection of short stories, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 1981 and reissued in hardcover and trade paperback by Little, Brown and Company in 1985.
EllenGilchrist has received numerous awards, including the Mississippi Arts Festival Poetry Award; the New York Quarterly Craft in Poetry Award; the National Endowment of the Arts Grant in Fiction; and the Mississippi Academy of Arts and Science Award for Fiction.
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