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The seven novels of North Carolina writer Bernice Kelly Harris (18941973) were published to international acclaim in the 1940s, and her plays were produced on television in the 1950s. Yet, despite her success at midlife, she spent her last years struggling to make ends meet and was virtually unknown by the time of her death. In this compelling biographythe first full-scale life of Harris since 1955 and the first to utilize unpublished autobiographical writings and confidential lettersValerie Raleigh Yow brings Harris back into the spotlight, revealing an extraordinary woman who thrived artistically while living a quite ordinary life. Yows intimate portrait of Harris shows her responding to societys strictures by exploring in fiction the paths not open to her in real life. AUTHOR BIO: Valerie Raleigh Yow, a history professor for many years, is an independent scholar and a counselor in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She is the author of several books, including Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences and The History of Hera: A Womans Art Cooperative.
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Bernice Kelly Harris : A Good Life Was Writing Southern Biography Series
author
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Yow, Valerie Raleigh.
publisher
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Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin
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080712348X
print isbn13
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9780807123485
ebook isbn13
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9780585329222
language
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English
subject
Harris, Bernice Kelly,--b. 1894, Feminism and literature--North Carolina--History--20th century, Women and literature--North Carolina--History--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Biography, North Carolina--In literature, North Carolina--Biogra
publication date
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1999
lcc
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PS3515.A722Z97 1999eb
ddc
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818/.5209
subject
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Harris, Bernice Kelly,--b. 1894, Feminism and literature--North Carolina--History--20th century, Women and literature--North Carolina--History--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Biography, North Carolina--In literature, North Carolina--Biogra
Bernice Kelly Harris
Page i
Southern Biography Series
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Editor
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Bernice Kelly Harris
A Good Life Was Writing
Valerie Raleigh Yow
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Disclaimer: Some images in the original version of the book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook.
Copyright 1999 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 5 4 3 2 1
Designer: Barbara Neely Bourgoyne Typeface: Sabon Typesetter: Coghill Composition Printer and binder: Edwards Brothers, Inc.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Gordon Kelley, executor of the estate of Bernice Kelly Harris, for permission to reproduce passages from Harris's novels, short stories, children's books, and plays. The author is also grateful to Alice Jo Kelley Burrows and Frank Borden Hanes for permission to quote from Harris's letters in their possession; to Stephen Burgwyn for permission to quote from correspondence of Mebane Burgwyn with Bernice Kelly Harris; and to Marguerite Stem for permission to quote from correspondence of Thad Stem Jr. with Bernice Kelly Harris. Passages from Betty A. Hodges's article in the 28 May 1967 issue of the Durham Morning Herald are copyright by the Durham Morning Herald and used with permission. The quotation from Lee Smith's short story "Tongues of Fire" is reproduced by permission of Lee Smith.
Chapter 6 was first published, in somewhat different form, as "Haunting Work: The Federal Writers' Project," in Pembroke Magazine (1997).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Yow, Valerie Raleigh. Bernice Kelly Harris : a good life was writing / Valerie Raleigh Yow. p. cm. (Southern biography series) Includes index. ISBN 0-8071-2348-X (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Harris, Bernice Kelly, b. 1894. 2. Feminism and literature North CarolinaHistory20th century. 3. Women and literature North CarolinaHistory20th century. 4. Authors, American20th centuryBiography. 5. North CarolinaIn literature. 6. North CarolinaBiography. I. Title. II. Series. PS3515.A722Z97 1999 818'.5209dc21 [b] 98-51111 CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources
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In memory of my mother, MAE MOORE WYATT, a beautiful working-class woman, a storyteller, who always wanted to write. And for her granddaughters, ANNE AND LAURA QUINNEY, who are writing women.
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Contents
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgments
xv
Note on Citations of Major Collections
xix
1 A Narrow Road to Heaven: Growing Up on a North Carolina Farm
1
2 No Flowery Bed of Ease: Miss Kelly, Teacher
20
3 Shamelessly Just Married before the World
32
4 Northampton County Produces Cotton, Peanuts, and Plays
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