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Ellen Douglas is recognized as a prominent contemporary author in Mississippi. Her many works of literature usually follow this particular pattern: re-imagining the child, and then the emerging adult. Because Douglas's fictional writing is universal, people of all races can relate to it. Her literary success has been achieved through a life of hard work and dedication.

Ellen Douglas, whose real name is Josephine Haxton, was born on July 12, 1921, in Natchez, Mississippi. When she graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1942, she married R. Kenneth Haxton, Jr., a composer. During her life, Ellen Douglas has won many awards and honors. "On the Lake," one of Douglas's short stories, was included in the O. Henry collection in 1961. Her novel A Family's Affairs was awarded the Houghton Mifflin fellowship in that same year and also was recognized as one of the five best novels of the year by the New York Times. Douglas's novel Black Cloud, White Cloud was named one of the five best works of fiction by the New York Times in 1963. In 1973 Apostles of Light, another novel, was nominated for the National Book Award by the National Book Committee. Douglas was also awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in 1976 and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for literature in 1979 and 1983. Ellen Douglas is an elected member under the University of Tennessee Chattanooga Lupton Library's Fellowship of Southern Writers. He's recognized as the first recipient of the Hillsdale Prize for Fiction.

She was a faculty member of the Faulkner Symposium at the University of Mississippi in 1980. Douglas presently lives in Jackson, Mississippi ,and is working on writing short stories.

The collection contains annotated manuscripts and research materials. 43 boxes. Typed inventory available.

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