John Egerton (b. 1935)
Biography
John Walden Egerton was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 14, 1935, and grew up in Kentucky. He attended the University of Kentucky, where he received his A.B. in 1958 and his M.A. in 1960.
Egerton began his career as a freelance writer in 1970, going on to contribute to several newspapers and write hundreds of articles for various journals. He has been living in Nashville, Tennessee, for over thirty years.
He has produced five major books, including Generations which won
the Weatherford Award in 1983 and the Lillian Smith Award in 1984. Egerton is most well-known for his work in Southern Studies. His collection of papers can be found in the library at Vanderbilt.
Bibliography
Fiction
- Ali Dubyiah and the Forty Thieves (2006)
Non-Fiction
- Higher Education for "High Risk" Students (1968)
- Racial Protest in the South--1969 Style: Case Studies of Forrest City,
Ark., and Sommerville, Tenn. (1969)
- State Universities and Black Americans: An Inquiry into Desegregation and
Equity for Negroes in 100 Public Universities (1969)
- Cubans in Miami: A Third Dimension in Racial and Cultural Relations
(1969)
- Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act: A Program in Search of a Policy
(1970)
- A Mind to Stay Here: Profiles from the South (1970)
- Black Public Colleges: Integration and Disintegration (1971)
- Promise of Progress: Memphis School Desegregation, 1972-1973 (1973)
- The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America (1974)
- School Desegregation: A Report Card from the South (1976)
- Education and Desegregation in Eight Schools (1977)
- Visions of Utopia: Nashoba, Rugby, Ruskin, and the "New Communities" in
Tennessee's Past (1977)
- Nashville: The Faces of Two Centuries, 1780-1980 (1979)
- Generations: An American Family (1983)
- Nissan in Tennessee (with photographs by Dana Thomas, 1983)
- Radnor Lake: Nashville's Walden (with John Netherton, 1984)
- Tennessee: A Homecoming (with Wilma Dykeman and Peter Taylor, 1985)
- South (with Bill Weems, 1987)
- Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History (with wife, Ann, and photographs by Al
Clayton, 1987)
- Side Orders: Small Helpings of Southern Cookery & Culture (1990)
- Shades of Gray: Dispatches from the Modern South (1991)
- Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil
Rights Movement in the South (1994)
- Nashville: An American Self-Portrait (editor, with E.
Thomas Wood, 2001)
- Cornbread Nation 1: The Best of Southern Food Writing (with Southern Foodways Alliance, 2002)
- Hungry for Home: Stories of Food from Across the Carolinas with More Than 200 Recipes (with Amy T. Rogers, 2004)
- Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South: An Informal History (2008)
- The View from Serendipity Hill (2009)
- The New Lovin' Spoonfuls: A Cookbook (2010)
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