		Writers From South Carolina: Robert Jordan, Mary Mcleod Bethune, Dorothy Allison, Pat Conroy, William Gilmore Simms, Robert Quillen Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-03. ISBN 9781155411101
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Robert Jordan, Mary Mcleod Bethune, Dorothy Allison, Pat Conroy, William Gilmore Simms, Robert Quillen, Marian Wright Edelman, Percival Everett, Ron Rash, Clyde N. Wilson, James Dickey, Henry Timrod, Benjamin B. Dunlap, David Ramsay, Faith Hunter, Dubose Heyward, William Price Fox, William Porcher Dubose, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Julia Peterkin, Sherod Santos, Francis Butler Simkins, John Faucheraud Grimké, John Drayton, Betsy Byars, John Jakes, John H. Leith, Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr., Kathleen Parker, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Ed Madden, Anne Rivers Siddons, Sue Monk Kidd, J. Gordon Coogler, Archibald Rutledge, Vertamae Grosvenor, Virginia Mixson Geraty, John Dunning, Josephine Humphreys, Josephine Pinckney, Peggy Parish, Benjamin Mays, Ambrose E. Gonzales, Jacob Stroyer, Carrie Allen Mccray, Effie Wilder, Blanche Mccrary Boyd, Misty Massey, Kwame Dawes, Sam Savage, Jeffrey Rotter, George Singleton, Caroline Howard Gilman, Franklin Burroughs. Excerpt: Ambrose Elliott Gonzales (May 27, 1857 July 11, 1926) was born in Paulo Parish, South Carolina . Gonzales was the son of General Ambrosio José Gonzales and Harriet Rutledge Elliot. His father was a Cuban revolutionary leader, who opposed oppressive Spanish rule. His mother was the daughter of the wealthy South Carolina rice planter, state senator and writer, William Elliott. Gonzales and his brother Narciso Gener Gonzales (1858-1903) were the founders of the The State newspaper in South Carolina. Gonzales is well remembered in South Carolina today as a pioneering journalist and the writer of black dialect sketches on the Gullah people of the South Carolina and Georgia low country. Gonzales grew up speaking the Gullah language with the slaves (and later freedmen) who worked on his family's rice plantations, and his knowledge of the langu

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