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Richard Ford, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Independence Day, has a home in the French Quarter with his wife, Kristina, who is the city planner for New Orleans. New Orleans Review was the first to publish John Kennedy Toole. The journal printed an excerpt of A Confederacy of Dunces in 1978. Lillian Hellman, born in New Orleans in 1905, used her birthplace as the setting for several of her plays, including Toys in the Attic. |
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Galatoire's,
a famous local restaurant, was the spot Faulkner chose to hold a dinner
when he received his advance for Mosquitoes. Patty Friedmann (with
the help of Maple Street Book Shop) recently chose Galatoire's as her
host for a party to celebrate the release of her novel Eleanor Rushing. Ernest Gaines, who found a wide audience after Oprah Winfrey chose his book A Lesson Before Dying for her book club, grew up outside of New Orleans on a plantation near New Roads, Louisiana. Though most of his books are set in that area of the state, his characters often travel to the city and speak of its charms. Gaines won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1993. Sherwood Anderson called New Orleans "surely the most civilized spot in America." Valerie Martin grew up in New Orleans and set many of her books here, including Set in Motion, Alexandra, and The Great Divorce. In A Recent Martyr, a plague of rats takes over the city.
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