- Josephine Humphreys
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name = Josephine Humphreys
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birthdate = Birth date and age|1945|2|2|mf=y
birthplace =Charleston, South Carolina
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occupation =Novel ist
nationality = flagicon|USA American
period = 1984 - present
genre =Southern literature ,historical fiction
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debut_works = "Dreams of Sleep" (1984)
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footnotes =Josephine Humphreys (born
February 2 ,1945 ) is an Americannovel ist.A native of
Charleston, South Carolina , which is also the setting of her novels "Dreams of Sleep", "Rich in Love" and "The Fireman's Fair", Humphreys was educated atAshley Hall (Class of 1963), studiedcreative writing withReynolds Price atDuke University (A.B., 1967), and went on to attendYale University (M.A., 1968) and the University of Texas. She held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the Danforth Foundation. From 1970 to 1977, before beginning her writing career, she taught English in Charleston.While her first three novels are mainly about contemporary family life in the South, her fourth, "Nowhere Else on Earth", is a departure in that it is an
historical novel based on a true story from theAmerican Civil War . It won the Southern Book Award in 2001."Rich in Love", probably her best-known novel, was made into a 1993
film directed byBruce Beresford , from ascreenplay byAlfred Uhry , starringAlbert Finney andJill Clayburgh .Humphreys was the winner of the 1984
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award , for "Dreams of Sleep", and the recipient of aGuggenheim Fellowship , the Lyndhurst Prize, and theAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.Novels
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Dreams of Sleep " (1984)
*"Rich in Love " (1987)
*"The Fireman's Fair " (1991)
*"Nowhere Else on Earth " (2000)ee also
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Southern literature
*Fellowship of Southern Writers Persondata
NAME=Humphreys, Josephine
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Novelist
DATE OF BIRTH=February 2 ,1945
PLACE OF BIRTH=Charleston, South Carolina
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