Jean W. Cash
Jean W. Cash is professor emerita of English at James Madison University, where she taught a variety of courses in southern literature for thirty-eight years. She is author of Flannery O’Connor: A Life and Larry Brown: A Writer’s Life, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi; coeditor with Keith Perry of Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South and Rough South, Rural South: Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature; and coeditor with Richard Gaughran of Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers: New Voices, New Perspectives, all published by University Press of Mississippi. She has also published a number of essays on southern writers and given numerous conference presentations. Her most recently published essay is on the novels of Ann Patchett.
Rough South, Rural South
Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature
A critical companion to the striking variety of contemporary southern literature
Larry Brown
A Writer's Life
The first biography of Mississippi’s beloved blue-collar writer who redefined southern fiction
Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South
A critical assessment of a great Mississippi writer’s empathy with the working class
Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers
New Voices, New Perspectives
A new anthology featuring contemporary and up-and-coming southern fiction writers