Allan Gurganus
1947
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Quotes
Biography
Allan Gurganus is an American novelist and short story writer born on February 11, 1947, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. He is best known for his debut novel 'Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All,' which was a bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Gurganus' works often explore themes of Southern life, family relationships, and LGBT issues, drawing on his own upbringing in the South.
Famous Quotes (5)
1
Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
2
We cherish things, Japan has a ceremonial way of doing that.
3
Being gay and being a Southerner bore similarities, both provided rich caches of phrases I could unproblematically deploy in dinner conversation with my aunt.
4
When we'’re down there at the very excremental heart of what it is about to be human, at greatest par as embarrassment, it'’s then that we tend to get funny.
5
I still have a passion to write.