A Dixie Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South’s Best Writers edited by Charline R. McCord and Judy H. Tucker

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Authors / Editors: Charline R. McCord and Judy H. Tucker
• Title: A Dixie Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers
• Publisher: ‎ Algonquin Books; First Edition (September 30, 2005)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 178 pages‏
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1565124839
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1565124837
• Item Weight: ‎ .75 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.81 x 0.69 x 7.28 inches
• Book Condition: New / Like New – Excellent
• Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

An Algonquin tradition continues with this third stellar collection of holiday stories by some of the South's most distinguished writers. This year's volume, with a preface by the acclaimed Fred Chappell, includes stories of families, couples, children, and those on their own, illustrating the many ways that Christmas can manifest itself: from the teacher who shows one boy how to manage the world so that it's Christmas every day to the girl who, in an attempt to best her father, buys for her mother the most magnificent necklace ever.

With stories and essays by Bailey White, Rick Bass, Ellen Gilchrist, Marianne Gingher, George Singleton, Michael Parker, Steve Yarbrough, Lynne Barrett, Bret Anthony Johnston, Stephen Marion and Aaron Gwyn, A Dixie Christmas celebrates a season filled with large expectations and graced with small surprises.

Each story is accompanied by watercolors from the award-winning Mississippi artist Wyatt Waters, specially commissioned for the anthology.

About the Authors / Editors:

Charline R. McCord is the author of numerous stories and has had the privilege of interviewing authors like Ellen Douglas and Carolyn Haines. In addition, she is the vice- president of publishing at DREAM, Inc. Her most recent publication is A Very Southern Christmas, which she again edits with Judy H. Tucker and published by Algonquin Books in November 2003. Barry Hannah has written the preface to the book and Wyatt Waters is the illustrator.

McCord’s book, Growing Up in Mississippi, was released in May 2008 and was published by University Press of Mississippi. The book contains stories by more than twenty-five prominent Mississippians. Since then two other books, Christmas Memories from Mississippi (2010), and, Coming Home to Mississippi (2013), (both with Judy Tucker) have been released.

Judy Tucker has written four novels ( none of which have yet been published), two book- length non-fiction pieces, three plays, many poems and short stories and about a dozen essays. Her short story “Clara’s Star” has been published in Christmas Stories from Mississippi (University Press of Mississippi, 2001). She co-edited this book and A Very Southern Christmas (Algonquin, 2003) with Charline McCord. Volume Two of A Very Southern Christmas is slated for publication by Algonquin in 2004. She edited Painting Home, and Another Coat of Paint., both books of paintings by Wyatt Waters. She has published half a dozen essays, probably half a hundred book reviews, and a some poems. The three plays have been performed for the public. Of all Tucker’s works, she is most proud of “Clara’s Star” and the play “The Brooch.”

Currently, Tucker is working on a non-fiction book, but she does not want to disclose any information about that just yet. She and Charline McCord have edited the second edition of A Very Southern Christmas. When she is not writing or editing, she spends her free time gardening, watching CNN, and working on crossword puzzles and enjoy time spent with her grandchild. Judy Tucker also enjoys reading and keeping up with her dozens of cousins, nieces and nephews.