Background
Hendrick, George was born on March 30, 1929 in Stephenville, Texas, United States. Son of Hoyt and Bessie Lea (Sears) Hendrick.
(Fredrick Douglass (1818-1895), a fugitive slave who becam...)
Fredrick Douglass (1818-1895), a fugitive slave who became the best-known black abolitionist orator and autobiographer, and Herman Melville (1819-1891), a fiction writer recognized for the elusiveness of his meanings, both composed stories about slave revolts at sea.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FBBU422/?tag=2022091-20
(In 1965 Katherine Anne Porter won both a Pulitzer Prize a...)
In 1965 Katherine Anne Porter won both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for the culmination of her life's work, the Collected Stories. Almost from the beginning of her career in the 1920s, Porter enjoyed the respect of fellow writers and of critics, who admired her disciplined prose and ability to create works that probe the psychological motivations of human behavior within a moral context. A master practitioner within the confines of a distinctly American art form--the short story--and its more continental cousin--the novella--Porter has fascinated readers with her complex and haunting works, including "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," "Flowering Judas," and Ship of Fools. Updating an important study published more than twenty years ago while the elusive Porter was still writing, George and Willene Hendrick now survey her entire body of work. Drawing on significant biographical evidence revealed since Porter's death in 1980, the Hendricks devote special attention to the connections between Porter's art and life, in particular the use of her Southern heritage and fascination with Mexico in her fiction. Although the authors concentrate on the short fiction, they also offer careful analysis of Porter's only novel--the allegorical Ship of Fools--and of her numerous political essays, occasional pieces, and uncompleted projects. "Katherine Anne Porter, Revised Edition" delineates Porter's artistic development and illustrates how her finely wrought stories transcended regional and national boundaries. A Detailed chronology and bibliography are included.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805775137/?tag=2022091-20
(On the night of November 7, 1841, the Creole, a brig tran...)
On the night of November 7, 1841, the Creole, a brig transporting at least 135 slaves from Richmond, Virginia, to the auction block at New Orleans, was about 130 miles northeast of the Bahamas. In the darkness, a band of 19 slaves led by Madison Washington seized the crew and its captain. Over the next several days they forced the Creole to sail into Nassau harbor, where the British authorities offered freedom to the slaves on board, touching off a diplomatic squabble and continuing legal ramifications. In The Creole Mutiny, George and Willene Hendrick have pieced together, from scant information and remote sources, the story of this successful slave revolt and of the mysterious figure of Madison Washington, a fugitive slave who had been recaptured while trying to free his wife. With careful attention to background details, the authors describe what is known of Washington's life; the efforts of fugitive slaves to free other family members; the methods of slave traders and the operators of slave pens; the conditions on slave ships; and the sexual exploitation of female slaves, some mere children. In an Appendix, the authors show how Madison Washington has taken on mythic qualities in the works of major African-American writers, from Frederick Douglass to Theodore Ward. With 24 black-and-white illustrations. "Fascinating...compelling history."―Vernon Ford, Booklist
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566635500/?tag=2022091-20
(This volume is the biography of Henry Stephens Salt (20 S...)
This volume is the biography of Henry Stephens Salt (20 September 20, 1851-April 19, 1939). He was an English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals. He was a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist, and was well known as a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0252006119/?tag=2022091-20
Hendrick, George was born on March 30, 1929 in Stephenville, Texas, United States. Son of Hoyt and Bessie Lea (Sears) Hendrick.
Bachelor, Texas Christian University, 1948. Master of Arts, Texas Christian University, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy, University Texas, 1954.
Member English faculty, S.W. Texas State University, 1954-1956; Member English faculty, U. Colorado, 1956-1960; professor American studies, J.W. Goethe U., Frankfurt, Germany, 1960-1965; professor, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1965-1967; professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, since 1967; special curator University Library., University of Illinois, Urbana, 1994-1997.
(Fredrick Douglass (1818-1895), a fugitive slave who becam...)
(On the night of November 7, 1841, the Creole, a brig tran...)
(In 1965 Katherine Anne Porter won both a Pulitzer Prize a...)
(A tale of revolt aboard a nineteenth-century slave ship a...)
(This volume is the biography of Henry Stephens Salt (20 S...)
Member Modern Language Association, James Jones Society (president 1991-1992).
Married Willene Lowery, January 21, 1955. 1 daughter, Sarah.