Background
Humphreys, Josephine was born on February 2, 1945 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Daughter of William and Martha Humphreys.
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Nowhere Else on Earth NOWHERE ELSE ON EARTH By Humphreys, Josephine ( Author )Oct-01-2001 Paperback
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Rich in Love
(At the age of seventeen, Lucille Odom finds herself in th...)
At the age of seventeen, Lucille Odom finds herself in the middle of an unexpected domestic crisis. As she helps guide her family through its discontent, Lucille discovers in herself a woman rich in wisdom, rich in humor, and rich in love.
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Rich in Love
(Family story with Lucille Odam as the seventeen year old ...)
Family story with Lucille Odam as the seventeen year old narrator. From rear jacket: "Rich in Love's narrator, seventeen-year-old Lucille, has a vivid and wonderfully skewed outlook. She offers indelible observances, wrought in sparkling language. The book crackles with life and delivers its pleasure with an easy grace". Author native of Charlestown, SC, and has won a number literary awards including the Hemingway Award, in 1984. This novel was turned into a motion picture, in 1993, starring Albert Finney and Jill Clayburgh.
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Nowhere Else on Earth
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- RICH IN LOVE.
- Dreams of Sleep (Contemporary American Fiction) (Alice Reese knows that the cheerful sounds of her family ...)
- Josephine Humphreys Reads Dreams of Sleep and Rich in Love (Excerpts)
Josephine Humphreys
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A native of Charleston, South Carolina, which is also the setting of her novels Dreams of Sleep, Rich in Love and The Fireman"s Fair, Humphreys was educated at Ashley Hall (Class of 1963), studied creative writing with Reynolds Price at Duke University (Bachelor of Arts, 1967), and went on to attend Yale University (Master of Arts, 1968) and the University of Texas.
Career
She held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the Danforth Foundation. From 1970 to 1977, before beginning her writing career, she taught English in Charleston. While her first three novels are mainly about contemporary family life in the South, her fourth, Nowhere Else on Earth, is a departure in that it is an historical novel based on the true story of Rhoda Strong and Henry Berry Lowrie from the American Civil War era.
Rich in Love, probably her best-known novel, was made into a 1993 film of the same title directed by Bruce Beresford, from a screenplay by Alfred Uhry, starring Albert Finney and Jill Clayburgh.
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Dreams of Sleep (Contemporary American Fiction)
(Alice Reese knows that the cheerful sounds of her family ...)
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Rich in Love
(At the age of seventeen, Lucille Odom finds herself in th...)
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Rich in Love
(Family story with Lucille Odam as the seventeen year old ...)
- RICH IN LOVE.
- Nowhere Else on Earth NOWHERE ELSE ON EARTH By Humphreys, Josephine ( Author )Oct-01-2001 Paperback
- Josephine Humphreys Reads Dreams of Sleep and Rich in Love (Excerpts)
- Nowhere Else on Earth
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Dreams of Sleep (Contemporary American Fiction)
Membership
Fellow Southern Writers.
Connections
Married Thomas A. Hutcheson, November 30, 1968. Children: Allen, William.
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United States
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Guggenheim Fellowship; Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Southern Book Award; Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award is awarded annually to a novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction.The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award is awarded annually to a novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction.