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News of the Appalachian Literary Arts For updates and expanded listings, please see our website at www.berea.edu/appalachianheritage Henry D. Shapiro died on January 24 in York, Pennsylvania, at the age of 66. His book, Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in American Consciousness, 1870-1920, is one of the most significant and original books in the field. He was a professor of history at the University of Cincinnati from 1966 until his retirement. New Stories from the South: 2003: The Year's Best, edited by Shannon Ravenel for Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, includes a story by Chris Offutt, who grew up in Rowan County, Kentucky, and a story by Paul Prather, who lives in Montgomery County, Kentucky. Haywood County native, Charles Frazier, the author of the novel, Cold Mountain, partially set in the Virginia and North Carolina mountains, has been the center of considerable media attention since the Hollywood film based on his novel was released on Christmas Day 2003. Zell Miller, a native of Young Harris, Georgia, and currently a U. S. Senator from that state, has made several best-seller lists with his nonfiction book, A National Party No More: The Conscience ofa Conservative Democrat. Rick Bragg, a native of Alabama's Appalachian foothills, has made the best-seller lists with his non-fiction account of the adventures of Palestine, West Virginia native, Jessica Lynch, I Am A Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story. At the end of 2003 Jan Karon's novel Shepherd's Abiding, was on several best-seller lists. Frank Jamison's "My Mind Wonders" took first prize at the Fourth Annual Robert Burns Poetry Award/Terry Semple Memorial Contest of 2003. Other winners include: Connie Jordan Green "One Moment Remembered," Jo Ann Pantanizopoulos "SundayAfternoon," and Chuck Bowers "Oi'm Scotch Irish; Why d'ye ask?" The Knoxville Writers' Guild and the Scottish Society of Knoxville sponsor this annual event. 4 ...

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