Fetch The Blue-Eyed Buddhist And Other Stories Chronicled By Ellen Gilchrist Manuscript
writer of poems, short stories, novels, and nonfiction commentaries, Ellen Gilchrist is a diverse writer whom critics have praised repeatedly for her subtle perceptions, unique characters, and sure command of the writers voice, as well as her innovative plotlines set in her native Mississippi.
As Sabine Durrant commented in the London Times, her writing “swings between the familiar and the shocking, the everyday and the traumatic.
She writes about ordinary happenings in out of the way places, of meetings between recognizable characters from her other fiction and strangers, above all of domestic routine disrupted by violence.
” The world of her fiction is awry the surprise ending, although characteristic of her works, can still shock A writer of poems, short stories, novels, and nonfiction commentaries, Ellen Gilchrist is a diverse writer whom critics have praised repeatedly for her subtle perceptions, unique characters, and sure command of the writers voice, as well as her innovative plotlines set in her native Mississippi.
As Sabine Durrant commented in the London Times, her writing “swings between the familiar and the shocking, the everyday and the traumatic.
She writes about ordinary happenings in out of the way places, of meetings between recognizable characters from her other fiction and strangers, above all of domestic routine disrupted
by violence.
” The world of her fiction is awry the surprise ending, although characteristic of her works, can still shock the reader.
“It is disorienting stuff,” noted Durrant, “but controlled always by Gilchrists wry tone and gentle insight, ” She earned her B. A. from Millsaps College in, and later did postgraduate study at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, She has worked as an author and journalist, as a contributing editor for the Vieux Carre Courier from, and as a commentator on National Public Radios Morning Edition from.
Her NPR commentaries have been published in her book Falling Through Space, She won a National Book Award for hercollection of short stories, Victory Over Japan, sitelink.