Background
Scura, Dorothy McInnis was born on March 18, 1933 in Elizabeth, Louisiana, United States. Daughter of James Edgar and Elizabeth (Cherry) McInnis.
("Literary journalist," "lowly social historian," "chronic...)
"Literary journalist," "lowly social historian," "chronicler of his times," and "champion of realism" are among the many epithets heaped upon Tom Wolfe by himself and his myriad admirers and critics. In this collection of interviews spanning his richly productive career, Wolfe is seen as a writer imitating no one and riding the crest of each latest wave in contemporary America.For more than a quarter of a century he has been the vivid and varied chronicler of our time--from the Californian car customizers and Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters of the sixties to the ambition-driven inhabitants of New York City in the eighties. His hybrid of reporting and fiction-writing has received perhaps more applause than any other literary journalism, and his first major work of fiction, "Bonfire of the Vanities," rested at the top of the bestseller lists for more than a year.Here is Tom Wolfe talking--about the subjects of his eight books, about the writers he admires, about the discipline of writing, about his politics and his disposition to satire and parody. As he explains his attempt "to show the world 'life in our times, '" this collection of delightfully witty and informative interviews reveals the insights and the intellect of one of America's brightest and most appealing authors.
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Scura, Dorothy McInnis was born on March 18, 1933 in Elizabeth, Louisiana, United States. Daughter of James Edgar and Elizabeth (Cherry) McInnis.
Bachelor of Science, Louisiana State University, 1956. Master of Arts, Columbia University Teachers College, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy, University North Carolina, 1973.
Assistant professor English University Richmond, 1975. Assistant professor Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 1974—1975, 1978, associate professor, 1981—1988, chairman department, 1983—1988. Professor University Tennessee, Knoxville, since 1988, head English department, 1988—1991.
Board directors Virginia Women's Cultural History Project, 1982—1984.
("Literary journalist," "lowly social historian," "chronic...)
Member of Modern Language Association (delegate Assembly 1980-1982, since 1992), Women's Caucus Modern Language Association (president 1981-1983), Ellen Glasgow Society (board directors since 1972, president 1991-1993, editor The Contempory Reviews), Southern Association Departments English (executive board 1987-1991, president 1991-1992), Society Study Southern Literature (executive board 1991-1993).
Married Alban E. Woolley Scura, June 6, 1951 (divorced). Married George W. Scura, December 5, 1964 (deceased October 1981). Children: Wynne Elizabeth, Michael Edward, Jill Caroline.