- Frontier and pioneer life, Fiction, History, Georgia, fiction
The backwoods of Georgia during the antebellum era provides the setting for a family saga.
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- Author
- Caroline Pafford Miller
- First published
- 1933
- Pages
- 342
- Publisher
- Franklin Library, Pinnacle Books, Peachtree Publishers
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781561450749
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Caroline Pafford Miller (August 26, 1903 – July 12, 1992) was an American novelist. She gathered the folktales, stories, and archaic dialects of the rural communities she visited in her home state of Georgia in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and wove them into her first novel, *Lamb in His Bosom*, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1934, and the French literary award, the Prix Femina Americain in 1935. Her success as the first Georgian winner of the fiction prize inspired Macmillan Publishers to seek out more southern writers, resulting in the discovery of Margaret Mitchell, whose first novel, *Gone with the Wind*, also won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Miller's sto
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