Jill McCorkle (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Jill Collins McCorkle is an important member of the third generation of twentieth century southern writers. Her ties to the landscape and cultural distinctiveness of the South stem from her upbringing among storytelling family members in the small town of Lumberton, North Carolina, where both her father, John, a postal worker, and her mother, Melba, a medical secretary, had extended family. McCorkle’s sense of language and natural representation of conversations among characters reveal her ties to the oral tradition of southern literary figures such as Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston,...
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