Eudora Welty Prize
author of World War I and Southern Modernism
Saturday, October 20, 9:30 a.m.
David A. Davis, a Georgia native, teaches English at Mercer University and is Associate Director of the Spencer B. King, Jr. Center for Southern Studies. He presents his Eudora Welty Prize-wining study World War I and Southern Modernism, exploring the effects of the Great War on Southern writers. He has also edited the reprint of Victor Daly’s novel Not Only War: A Story of Two Great Conflicts and John L. Spivak’s novel Hard Times on a Southern Chain Gang. He is also co-editor of Writing in the Kitchen: Essays on Southern Literature and Foodways.
Did You Know?
- Davis chairs the Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature committee.
- He is editor of The Malcolm Lester Phi Beta Kappa Lectures on Liberal Arts and Public Life..
- He is the director of scholarships and fellowships at Mercer University.
