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Duff, Gerald Aldine was born on September 20, 1938 in Beaumont, Texas, United States. Son of Willie Ellis and Dorothy Jane (Stephens) Duff.
(Two elderly East Texas sisters who have lived together al...)
Two elderly East Texas sisters who have lived together all their lives and have learned the hateful, necessary contours of their shared existence gather with townspeople for the annual cleanup of the graveyard where family, friends and lovers lie buried.
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(It’s May in Memphis, and four bloody murders occur on the...)
It’s May in Memphis, and four bloody murders occur on the eve of the International BBQ Contest and the Cotton Carnival: a conventioneer is stabbed at an ATM machine, a gang leader and his girlfriend are executed, and a wealthy local businessman is killed in his own home while his bodyguard is napping outside the door. It’s up to homicide detective J.W. Ragsdale to solve these seemingly unconnected crimes without scaring away the tourists who are arriving in droves. That’s not going to be easy. Ragsdale’s investigation pits him against a crack-dealing gang in the midst of a bloody drug war, a Memphis BBQ king struggling to hold on to his crumbling empire, a shotgun-wielding assassin, an East Coast mobster with a taste for BBQ and the blues, and the newly crowned Maid of Cotton, who will do anything to keep her tiara.
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(By blood, bone and history, Austin Bullock is now chief o...)
By blood, bone and history, Austin Bullock is now chief of his nation, responsible for maintaining the welfare of his people and the land. By choice, he left the reservation years ago to teach high-school history, to coach basketball in the white man's school, and to seek an identity apart from his Native American heritage. Now the waters of Lost Man Marsh and the song of the Tie-snake call Austin to return. Someone outside the Nation has sinister plans for the people who live there. Murder, tribal custom, legend, and the modern world collide with violent force, and Austin must make choices he has struggled to avoid.
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Duff, Gerald Aldine was born on September 20, 1938 in Beaumont, Texas, United States. Son of Willie Ellis and Dorothy Jane (Stephens) Duff.
Bachelor, Lamar University, 1961. Master of Arts, University Arkansas, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, University Illinois, 1966.
Assistant professor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1966-1972; associate professor, Kenyan College, Gambier, Ohio., 1972-1980; vice president, dean, Rhodes College, Memphis, 1980-1986; vice president, dean, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland., 1986-1994; instructor writing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1994-1996; vice president, dean, McKendree College, Labanon, Illinois, since 1996. Board of trustees St. Mary's Episcopal School, Memphis, 1983-1986. Consultant Transylvania College, Lexington, Kentucky, 1984, Beaver College, Philadelphia, 1993.
(It’s May in Memphis, and four bloody murders occur on the...)
(Two elderly East Texas sisters who have lived together al...)
(By blood, bone and history, Austin Bullock is now chief o...)
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Married Susan Louise Blount, November 25, 1972 (divorced 1981). Married Patricia Annette Stephens, July 8, 1984. Children: Stuart, Audrey.