{"id":236,"date":"2022-09-28T11:13:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=236"},"modified":"2022-09-28T11:13:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:13:18","slug":"w-ralph-eubanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2021\/w-ralph-eubanks\/","title":{"rendered":"W. Ralph Eubanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/eubanks_lg.jpg\" alt=\"W. Ralph Eubanks\" class=\"wp-image-196\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/eubanks_lg.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/eubanks_lg-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Author of <em>A Place Like Mississippi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keynote, October 21, 7:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ralph Eubanks is the former director of publishing for the Library of Congress and editor of\u00a0<em>Virginia Quarterly Review.<\/em>\u00a0His many publishing credits include articles and essays in\u00a0<em>The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>WIRED!,\u00a0<\/em>among many others, and his previous books include the memoirs\u00a0<em>Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi&#8217;s Dark Past<\/em>\u00a0and \u00a0the memoir <em>The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South.\u00a0<\/em>Born in Mount Olive, Mississippi, Eubanks draws on his deep heritage to explore our state in his latest endeavor,\u00a0<em>A Place Like Mississippi:\u00a0A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralpheubanks.com\">W. Ralph Eubanks&#8217; author site<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/welty\/authors21\/covers\/placelikemississippi_lg.jpg\" alt=\"A place like Mississippi cover\" width=\"250\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 Keynote<br \/>\nauthor of A Place Like Mississippi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}