Ellen Gilchrist(1935-2024)
- Writer
Often compared to Southern writers such as Tennessee Williams, Flannery
O'Connor, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty -- with whom she studied --
Ellen Gilchrist has been declared "a national treasure" by the
Washington Post for her various works. She has received numerous awards
for her novels, poetry, and memoirs, as well as a National Endowment
for the Arts Grant in Fiction. Gilchrist is known for writing complex
heroines who overcome or embrace their oppressive settings and her work
often deals with marriage, family, and dreams.
She followed the success of her 1981 short story collection In The Land of Dreamy Dreams with Victory Over Japan, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 1984. After a year on NPR's Morning Edition, her commentaries were published in 1987 as Falling Through Space: The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist.
She followed the success of her 1981 short story collection In The Land of Dreamy Dreams with Victory Over Japan, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 1984. After a year on NPR's Morning Edition, her commentaries were published in 1987 as Falling Through Space: The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist.