Background
Butler, Jack Armand was born on May 8, 1944 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States. Son of Jack Armand and Dorothy Butler.
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Jujitsu for Christ (Banner Books Series) by Jack Butler (2013-01-22)
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The Kid Who Wanted to be a Spaceman
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Hawk Gumbo and Other Stories
(Interesting short stories telling interesting and unusual...)
Interesting short stories telling interesting and unusual things.
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West of Hollywood: Poems from a hermitage (August House poety series)
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Nightshade
(Boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fin...)
Boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy in a fine dj.
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Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock
(Narrated by the Holy Ghost, this most unusual novel tells...)
Narrated by the Holy Ghost, this most unusual novel tells the story of Charles and Lianne Morrison. He's a millionaire lawyer, possibly, a future governor. She's the beautiful ex-TV newscaster and former Miss Little Rock. "What begins as a soap opera and a whodunit becomes an engrossing examination of the human soul in turmoil."--Dallas Morning News.
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Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock
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paperback book
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The Kid Who Wanted to Be a Spaceman and Other Poems
(Publishers note laid in.)
Publishers note laid in.
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Jujitsu for Christ
( Jack Butler's Jujitsu for Christ--originally published ...)
Jack Butler's Jujitsu for Christ--originally published in 1986--follows the adventures of Roger Wing, a white born-again Christian and karate instructor who opens a martial arts studio in downtown Jackson, Mississippi, during the tensest years of the Civil Rights era. Ambivalent about his religion and his region, he befriends the Gandys, an African-American family--parents A. L. and Snower Mae, teenaged son T. J., daughter Eleanor Roosevelt, and youngest son Marcus--who has moved to Jackson from the Delta in hopes of greater opportunity for their children. As the political heat rises, Roger and the Gandys find their lives intersecting in unexpected ways. Their often-hilarious interactions are told against the backdrop of Mississippi's racial trauma--Governor Ross Barnett's "I Love Mississippi" speech at the 1962 Ole Miss-Kentucky football game in Jackson; the riots at the University of Mississippi over James Meredith's admission; the fieldwork of Medgar Evers, the NAACP, and various activist organizations; and the lingering aura of Emmett Till's lynching. Drawing not only on William Faulkner's gothic-modernist Yoknapatawpha County but also on Edgar Rice Burroughs's high-adventure Martian pulps, Jujitsu for Christ powerfully illuminates vexed questions of racial identity and American history, revealing complexities and subtleties too often overlooked. It is a remarkable novel about the civil rights era, and how our memories of that era continue to shape our political landscape and to resonate in contemporary conversations about southern identity. But, mostly, it's very funny, in a mode that's experimental, playful, sexy, and disturbing all at once. Butler offers a new foreword to the novel. Brannon Costello, a scholar of contemporary southern literature and fan of Butler's work, writes an afterword that situates the novel in its historical context and in the southern literary canon.
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Jack Armand Butler
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Bachelor in English, Center Missouri State College, 1966; Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Center Missouri State College, 1966; Master of Fine Arts in Writing, U. Arkansas, 1979.
Career
Actuarial analyst, Blue Cross/Blue Shield Arkansas, Little Rock, 1981-1984;
capital recovery analyst, Arkansas Public Svc. Commission, Little Rock, 1985-1988;
assistant dean college, Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas, 1988-1993;
director creative writing, The College of Santa Fe, since 1993. Delegate National Surgical Adjuvants Board of Protocols Conference on Adjuvant Chemotherapy, 1980.
Consultant actuary Arkansas State Insurance Commission, 1983. Chairman The Porter Fund. Chairman The Arkansas Literature Society, 1987-1988.
Expert witness Arkansas Public.Svc. Commission.
Achievements
Works
book
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Jujitsu for Christ
( Jack Butler's Jujitsu for Christ--originally published ...)
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Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock
(Narrated by the Holy Ghost, this most unusual novel tells...)
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Hawk Gumbo and Other Stories
(Interesting short stories telling interesting and unusual...)
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The Kid Who Wanted to Be a Spaceman and Other Poems
(Publishers note laid in.)
-
Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock
(paperback book)
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Nightshade
(Boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fin...)
- LIVING IN LITTLE ROCK WITH MISS LITTLE ROCK Signed 1st
- Jujitsu for Christ (Banner Books Series) by Jack Butler (2013-01-22)
- The Kid Who Wanted to be a Spaceman
- West of Hollywood: Poems from a hermitage (August House poety series)
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Jujitsu for Christ
Interests
Connections
Married Lynnice McDonald, June 25,1966 (divorced December 1980). Children: Lynnika Grace, Sarah Jessamine. Married Jayme Thomas Tull, February 20, 1983.
Stepchildren: Sherri Tull, Catherine Tull.
