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Carl Lamson Carmer (October 16, 1893 – September 11, 1976) was an American writer of nonfiction books, memoirs, and novels, many of which focused on American myths, folklore, and tales. His most famous book, Stars Fell on Alabama, was an autobiographical story of the time he spent living in Alabama. He was considered one of America's most ...
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The novel won an array of awards, including the Newberry Honour Book Award and the Coretta Scott King Honour Book Award for African American Writers. [ 3 ] The Keepers of the House (1964), by Shirley Ann Grau , is a novel about Abigail Howland, the head of a family who is ostracized when it is revealed that her grandfather lived for 30 years ...
In January 2002, the phrase "Stars Fell on Alabama" was added to Alabama's license plates, [4] and the traditional "Heart of Dixie" slogan was reduced to a smaller size. This design was replaced in early 2009 by another, which depicts the Gulf Coast of Alabama and reads " Sweet Home Alabama ".
Read Me a Story Stella has no sexual content – and is in fact about two siblings spending the day reading and building a fort
[9] The Poetry Project said "Within these poems, every thing is touching every other thing, more like processes imbricated, ecologies extending into one another, dimensions porous." [10] Southwest Contemporary said "Throughout the book, extended serial poems move across the page in quietly powerful long lines, resulting in a hypnotic affect ...
A library system in Alabama flagged a children’s book, “Read Me a Story, Stella,” as potentially “sexually explicit” because the author’s last name is “Gay.”
His awards include a regional Emmy for Achievement in Screenwriting with Brent Davis for a documentary on Alabama writer William Bradford Huie.Noble was the recipient of the 2000 Eugene Current-Garcia Award, [6] the 2013 Wayne Greenhaw Service Award from the Alabama Humanities Alliance, [7] and the 2017 Governor’s Arts Award given by the Alabama State Council on the Arts.