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- Birth nameEllen Louise Gilchrist
- 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.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpouseMarshall Peteet Walker (divorced, 3 children)
- Won a National Book Award for her 1984 collection of short stories, Victory Over Japan.
- Earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the University of Arkansas.
- Taught graduate-level English courses in creative writing and contemporary fiction at the University of Arkansas.
- Took writing classes from Eudora Welty at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.
- She has 18 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
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