A Southern Vanguard

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Excerpt from A Southern Vanguard: The John Pearle Bishop Memorial VolumeThis anthology Is composed OF stories, poems, and critical essays oi lered for the John Peale Bishop Memorial Literary Prize Contest con ducted between April I and September I5, 1945, by The Sewanee Re view and Prentice - Hall, Inc. The prizes were awarded as follows: $200 to Andrew Lytle for his story, the guide, $200 to Malcolm Cow. Ley for his essay, william faulkner's legend OF the south, and $100 to Randall Jarrell for his poem, the marci'ien. The judges were Gorham Munson, Editor of the Trade Book Depart ment of prentice-hall, Inc., and myself, who at the time of the contest was Editor of le Sewanee Review. The winning titles and a few Others which are acknowledged elsewhere in this volume, were pub lished in The Servanee Review. Under the conditions Of the contest non - Southern writers were invited to compete for the essay prize, pro vided their subjects were sotithern, the entrants for the fiction and poetry prizes had to be of Southern birth or identified with the South ern States by residence or by interest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.