Kathryn Tucker Windham

Kathryn Tucker Windham ( born as Kathryn Tucker, born June 2, 1918 in Selma, Alabama, † June 12, 2011 ibid ) was an American journalist and narrator who's in their stories about the Southern United States folklore of the South, bucolic poetry, memories, recipes, and ghost stories wove and is considered one of the most important writers of Alabama.

Life

Kathryn Tucker spent her childhood in Thomasville and already during her childhood she was influenced by the stories her father, who bound them together as a gifted storyteller family stories, strange stories and the quirks of nature. At the age of twelve, she began 1930 with the writing film reviews for the local newspaper, The Thomasville Times. After schooling, the daughter of a banker, studied at Huntingdon College in Alabama, where she graduated in 1939.

After the completion of Huntingdon College, she was a police reporter for The Alabama Journal in Montgomery, before she became a journalist for the daily newspaper, The Birmingham News, 1943, and there the reporter Amasa Windham met, whom she married in 1946.

After the death of her husband in 1956, she devoted herself increasingly to writing and told it often simple, self-experienced thoughts and stories such as why she always took a break until a buzzard flapped his wings, "Because everyone knows that it's really bad luck, if you see a buzzard - something terrible will happen to you, unless he strikes again with the wings " (, 'Cause everybody knows did if you see one buzzard, it's real bad luck -. something awful is going to happen to you Unless he flaps his wings. ') or of what it the false dawn (' false dawn ' called ) when the first glint of the day when the birds lay siege to a marsh with kakophonischem choral singing and then to Sunrise real silent. Above all, they liked to tell ghost stories.

Kathryn Tucker Windham Total authored 26 books. Six of her books based on their collected when traveling through Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia ghost stories. In 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey (1969 ) she told example of the Red Lady of Huntingdon College ( Red Lady of Huntingdon College '), which floats at night by Pratt Hall in a red dress and a screen, silent, but with her ​​heels chattering.

She told in Alabama: One Big Front Porch (1975 ), one of her most famous books of the Hoop Snake, a legendary creature in the U.S., mules, rabbits, fox hunting, gardens and Ururgroßmüttern, whom she met while walking through Alabama.

In her latest book Spit, Scarey Ann & Sweat Bees (2009) described it in turn childhood memories, as she was afraid of a Grasshopper, on the of her hidden in a box wooden doll inside as her mother the day she caught on ignition of a match and encounters with sweat Bees landing on people and their sweat suck.

In a deliberately stretched Slang of the Southern States they also began in 1984 with its own radio show at Alabama Public Radio and hosted this show with mostly their own closely approaching twenty years. Between 1985 and 1987, these comments were also broadcast on the program All Things Considered radio station National Public Radio. Title of her comments were, for example, Grits Is a singular Delicacy, Honeysuckle Blossoms Smell Wonderful and The Tree -sitting Record of Clark County, 1930s. Her then producer of All Things Considered, Art Silverman, said this about her writing style:

On the grounds of Alabama Southern Community College ( ASCC ) Kathryn Tucker Windham, the museum was opened on the occasion of her 85th birthday on June 1, 2003.

Publications

  • Treasured Alabama Recipes (1964 )
  • 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey ( co-author Margaret Gillis Figh, 1969)
  • Jeffrey Introduces 13 More Southern Ghosts ( 1971)
  • Treasured Tennessee Recipes (1972 )
  • Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey (1973 )
  • Treasured Georgia Recipes (1973 )
  • Exploring Alabama ( 1974)
  • Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey (1974 )
  • Alabama: One Big Front Porch (1975 )
  • Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey (1977 )
  • The Ghost in the Sloss Furnaces (1978 )
  • Southern Cooking to Remember (1978 )
  • Cou nt Those Buzzards! Stamp Those Grey Mules (1979 )
  • Jeffrey 's Latest Thirteen: More Alabama Ghosts ( 1982)
  • A Serigamy of Stories (1988 )
  • Odd - Egg Editor ( 1990)
  • A Sampling of Selma Stories ( 1991)
  • The Autobiography of a Bell ( 1991)
  • Twice Blessed (1996 )
  • Bridal Wreath Bush ( 1999)
  • Common Threads ( with photographs by Chip Cooper, 2000)
  • It's Christmas (2002)
  • Ernest 's Gift (2004)
  • Jeffrey 's Favorite 13 Ghost Stories: From Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi ( 2004)
  • Spit, Scarey Ann, and Sweat Bees: One Thing Leads to Another (2009)
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