{"id":418,"date":"2022-09-28T15:06:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=418"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:14:22","slug":"david-a-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2018\/david-a-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"David A. Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eudora Welty Prize<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

author of<\/strong> World War I and Southern Modernism<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, October 20, 9:30 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

David A. Davis<\/strong>, 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,<\/em> 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 <\/em>and John L. Spivak’s novel Hard Times on a Southern Chain Gang. <\/em>He is also co-editor of Writing in the Kitchen: Essays on Southern Literature and Foodways.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did You Know?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Davis chairs the Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature committee.<\/li>
  2. He is editor of The Malcolm Lester Phi Beta Kappa Lectures on Liberal Arts and Public Life.. <\/li>
  3. He is the director of scholarships and fellowships at Mercer University.  <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n