Thursday, December 4, 2 pm, Special Collections and Archives Department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library: Madison Jones, author of The Adventures of Douglas Bragg
Jones, former writer-in-residence at Auburn University, is the award winning author of twelve books, including Nashville 1864: The Dying of the Light, which was awarded a Michael Shaara Award for Civil War Fiction from the United States Civil War Center. His new book, The Adventures of Douglas Bragg, follows a long tradition of Southern humorists, including Mark Twain, Erskine Caldwell and Harry Crews. A coming-of-age novel, it is, according to reviewer Hugh Ruppersburg, "full of jokes, pranks, shenanigans, tall tales, country music, drug-running morticians, houses of ill repute, hypocritical preachers, communes, and fun." In addition to membership in the prestigious Fellowship of Southern writers, Jones has held fellowships from the Sewanee Review, Rockefeller Foundation and Guggenheim Foundation. He is also the recipient of the Harper Lee Lifetime Literary Award.
The reading and book signing is sponsored by the Auburn University Libraries, the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and the Auburn University Bookstore.
Wednesday, December 10, 5 pm, Arriccia Fireplace Lounge: Paul Hemphill, author of A Tiger Walk Through History: A Compete History of Auburn Football from 1892 to the Tuberville Era, with an introduction by David Housel
A Tiger Walk Through History is the second title in the Pebble Hill Books imprint series, a cooperative publishing venture of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the University of Alabama Press. This groundbreaking joint enterprise between Auburn and the University of Alabama is designed to publish works that grow out of or contribute to the Center's programming.
The reception is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, the College of Liberal Arts Development Office, the Auburn Alumni Association and the Auburn University Bookstore. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Hemphill was sports editor of the Auburn Plainsman during the National Championship season of 1957 and is the author of sixteen books. In A Tiger Walk Through History, he tells the story of the progress of Auburn from that first game-coached by Auburn legend George Petrie-through the team's growth and development into the national force it is today. Contributors to the volume include David Housel, Rheta Grimsley Johnson, Ken and Joy Ringer, Anne River Siddons, Jim Stewart and Cynthia Tucker.
