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Archive Home > 2012 > November > 13 > Novelist Douglas, 91, wrote about nuances of life in South

Novelist Douglas, 91, wrote about nuances of life in South

By Margalit Fox / The Bulletin
November 13, 2012

Ellen Douglas, a Mississippi-born writer whose novels explored the uneasy, sometimes surprisingly tender alliances between black and white women in the American South, died Wednesday at her home in Jackson, Miss. She was 91.

Her son Brooks Haxton confirmed her death.

Ellen Douglas was the pen....

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