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Sims, Patsy was born on February 14, 1938 in Beaumont, Texas, United States. Daughter of Robert Ray and Edna Frances (Shanks) Sims.
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" Award-winning journalist Patsy Sims journeyed through the back roads of the South, along the sawdust trail, to take part in the lives of seven American revivalists, their families, crew members, and followers. She attended services conducted by Pentecostal evangelists, with audiences ranging from almost fifty to five thousand. Before, after, and in between she conducted hundred of interviews. Wh...
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(" Award-winning journalist Patsy Sims journeyed through t...)
" Award-winning journalist Patsy Sims journeyed through the back roads of the South, along the sawdust trail, to take part in the lives of seven American revivalists, their families, crew members, and followers. She attended services conducted by Pentecostal evangelists, with audiences ranging from almost fifty to five thousand. Before, after, and in between she conducted hundred of interviews. What she discovered is a fascinating world dominated by colorful, compelling, unorthodox men who sprang out of a tradition that dates back almost two hundred years. With descriptive, evocative prose, Sims allows readers to vicariously experience old-time religion: a revivalist attempting to raise his son from the dead, a week with an east Tennessee congregation of snakehandlers, the opening-night jitters of a beginning evangelist, and the loneliness of the road for the veterans. Sims's rendering of what goes on in the tents and tabernacles of America allows the people and events to speak for themselves.
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Sims, Patsy was born on February 14, 1938 in Beaumont, Texas, United States. Daughter of Robert Ray and Edna Frances (Shanks) Sims.
Bachelor, Tulane University, 1960. Master of Arts, University Maryland, 1986.
Feature writer, The States-Item, New Orleans, 1958-1960;
information specialist, State Board Health, New Orleans, 1960-1962;
reporter, women's editor, The States-Item, New Orleans, 1962-1971;
special assignment writer, The States-Item, 1972-1973;
acting women's editor, San Francisco Chronicle, 1971-1972;
feature writer, Philadelphia Inquirer, 1973-1974;
self-employed writer, Washington, since 1974. Adjunct lecturer American U., 1986, U. Maryland., 1986. Visiting lecturer University of California, San Diego, 1987.
Writer-in-residence Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, 1988, Pacific Lutheran U., Tacoma, 1989. Assistant professor writing programU. Pittsburgh, since 1989.
(" Award-winning journalist Patsy Sims journeyed through t...)
(" Award-winning journalist Patsy Sims journeyed through t...)
Member Authors Guild, Association Writing Programs, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/American.
Married Lawrence G. Hountha, November 25, 1960 (divorced 1972).