Fornker, Ben : University of Angers
Ben Forkner is professor of English and American literature at the University of Angers in France. A graduate
of Stetson University in Florida, he received his Ph.D. from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He
has published essays on writers from Ireland and the American South and has edited several anthologies including
Georgia Stories, and with Patrick Samway, S. J., A Modern Southern Reader and A New Reader of the Old South.
Samway, Patrick :
Patrick Samway, S. J. received his B.A. and M.A. from Fordham University, his M.Div. from Woodstock College,
and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Father Samway taught for eight years at Le
Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, and also has received two Fulbright lectureships to France, in addition to
having been a Bannan Fellow at the University of Santa Clara in California and Visiting Associate Professor at
both Boston College and Loyola University in New Orleans. He is the literary editor of America and, with Ben Forkner,
the editor of A Modern Southern Reader and A New Reader of the Old South.
"Lovers of fine writing will find the hefty sampling of twentieth-century southern U.S. literature by black
and white men and women to be irresistible... a dignified yet lively testament to the fact that the American South
represents, among many other things, a particularly distinctive body of literature."
-- Booklist
Peachtree Publishers, Web Site, July, 2001
EDITORS BEN FORKNER AND PATRICK SAMWAY look back at the writing the South has produced during the twentieth
century and conclude that "there seems to be a good chance that Southern literature of the twentieth century
will be remembered and read as one of the permanent gifts of modern times.
In A Modern Southern Reader, they bring together representative work of many writers who are not only the best
of their region but who are also among the very best our country has produced. From the Fugitives who led the Southern
Renaissance in the twenties through Faulkner and O'Connor up to such contemporary talents as Barry Hannah and Dave
Smith, Forkner and Samway have assembled a collection that demonstrates the enormous depth and variety of modern
Southern literature.
This important and comprehensive collection of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, interviews, and reminiscences is
a treat for all lovers of fine literature. It is also an invaluable addition to the libraries of students and scholars
alike.
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