Education
She began writing as a child and graduated from University of Alabama in 1938. The book, though launched with a party attended by Margaret Mitchell, was not a commercial success.
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Helen Norris
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Although most of Norris" work can be considered southern literature she also wrote many stories set in many places around the world, often preferring to write what she imagined to what she knew. Her first novel, Something More Than Earth, was published in 1940. In 1966 she began teaching English at Huntington College in Montgomery, Alabama until her retirement in 1979.
Following her retirement, Norris actively pursued her writing career with several published books
Her short stories have appeared in Southern Review, Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Gettysburg Review, among other literary journals. Two of her stories have been made into television films.
"The Christmas Wife" was filmed in 1988 starring Julie Harris and Jason Robards for Home Box Office and was broadcast for several Christmas seasons. "The Cracker Manitoba" was filmed for Public Broadcasting Service stations in 1999.
In 2015 she was inducted into the inaugural class of the Alabama Writers" Hall of Fame.
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Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.