Jan 3, 2010

Victory over Japan | Author Biography

A Southern writer often compared to Bobbie Ann Mason, Carson McCullers, and Tennessee Williams, Ellen Gilchrist was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1935. In early adolescence, her father’s duties with the Army Corps of Engineers caused the family to move around the country during World War II. At the age of nineteen, Gilchrist dropped out of school and ran away to marry the first of her four husbands. Her education was not resumed for sever al years; in 1967, at the age of thirty-two, she earned a B.A. from Millsaps College.

Gilchrist’s writing career did not begin until...