Background
Sally Wolff was born on August 21, 1954, in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States to the family of a merchant Haskell and Elaine Wolff.
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Sally Wolff studied at Vanderbilt University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976.
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Sally Wolff earned her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Emory University in 1979 and 1983 respectively.
(In the 1970s and 1980s, Sally Wolff and Floyd C. Watkins,...)
In the 1970s and 1980s, Sally Wolff and Floyd C. Watkins, both of Emory University, took students of southern literature to Lafayette County, Mississippi, to explore the region where William Faulkner lived. They visited Faulkner’s home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi; trekked around the countryside; and met people who were the prototypes for some of his characters. During these excursions, they discovered firsthand how profoundly Faulkner’s family, community, and region imprinted themselves on his imagination and then both shaped and enriched his work. Their primary guide was Jimmy Faulkner, who was once described by his famous uncle as “the only person who likes me for what I am.”
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1996
(Southern Mothers, a collection of critical essays by prom...)
Southern Mothers, a collection of critical essays by prominent southern literary scholars, examines the significance of motherhood in southern fiction. The belle, the mammy, religion, and racism are several of the distinctive threads with which southern women writers have woven the fabric of their stories. Bringing southern motherhood into focus - with all its peculiarities of attitude and tradition - the essays speak to both the established and the unconventional modes of motherhood that are typical in southern writing and probe the extent to which southern women writers have rejected or embraced, supported or challenged the individual, social, and cultural understanding and institution of motherhood.
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1999
(This book celebrates men and women whose spirit of inquir...)
This book celebrates men and women whose spirit of inquiry - their sense of curiosity and ways of thinking - nudged them down paths that tested their mettle.
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2010
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Emory University professor Sally Wolff has carried on a fifty-year tradition of leading students on expeditions to "Faulkner country" in and around Oxford, Mississippi. Not long ago, she decided to invite alumni on one of these field trips. One response to the invitation surprised her: "I can't go on the trip. But I knew William Faulkner." They were the words of Dr. Edgar Wiggin Francisco III, and in talking with Wolff he revealed that as a child in the 1930s and 1940s he did indeed know Faulkner quite well. His father and Faulkner maintained a close friendship for many years, going back to their shared childhood, but the fact of their friendship has been unrecognized because the two men saw much less of each other after the early years of their marriages.
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2010
(From the heartbroken protagonist she depicted in her firs...)
From the heartbroken protagonist she depicted in her first published story, "Death of a Traveling Salesman," to the reflective widow she described in her last novel, The Optimist's Daughter, Eudora Welty wrote realistically about the shadows and radiance of love. In a meticulous exploration of this theme, Sally Wolff combines new readings of Welty's fiction with contextual information and background drawn from a nineteen-year friendship with Welty.
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2015
Sally Wolff was born on August 21, 1954, in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States to the family of a merchant Haskell and Elaine Wolff.
Sally Wolff studied at Vanderbilt University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976. She earned her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Emory University in 1979 and 1983 respectively.
Sally Wolff is an Assistant Director of Publications in Health Sciences Communications at Emory University. She also previously served for twenty years as Assistant and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory and as Assistant Vice President in the Office of the President. She taught in the Department of English for more than thirty years.
With Emory University Vice President Gary S. Hauk, she co-edited a new Emory history book titled: Where Courageous Inquiry Leads: The Emerging Life of Emory University. Louisiana State University Press published her book about William Faulkner: Ledgers of History: William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Diary, which has been called one of the most exciting literary finds in recent history and a major discovery in Faulkner scholarship. Her invited speaking engagements around the country included lectures at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and the William J. Clinton Presidential Center.
Wolff is also the author of Talking About William Faulkner (1996) and co-editor of Southern Mothers: Fact and Fiction in Southern Women's Writing (1999), both with Louisiana State University Press. She lectures and writes about Southern writers, including Eudora Welty, with whom she shared an eighteen-year literary friendship.
(From the heartbroken protagonist she depicted in her firs...)
2015(Emory University professor Sally Wolff has carried on a f...)
2010(This book celebrates men and women whose spirit of inquir...)
2010(Southern Mothers, a collection of critical essays by prom...)
1999(In the 1970s and 1980s, Sally Wolff and Floyd C. Watkins,...)
1996
Sally Wolff married a primate center director at Emory University Frederick A. King in 1991.