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Ellen Douglas
Ellen Douglas is the pen name of Natchez-born wirter Josephine Haxton. Under Douglas’s name, Haxton has written eight works of fiction and one of nonfiction, and has been regarded as a Southern post-modernist, looking at thematic elements common to Southern literature in ways that dissect the nature of storytelling.
Bibliography
Fiction
A Family’s Affairs. Boston: Houghton, 1962.
Black Cloud, White Cloud: Two Novellas and Two Stories. (Short stories.) Boston: Houghton, 1963. Illustrated by Elizabeth Wolfe. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi,1989.
Where the Dreams Cross. Boston: Houghton, 1968.
Apostles of Light. New York: Houghton, 1973. With an introduction by Elizabeth Spencer. Jackson: Banner Books, 1994.
The Rock Cried Out. New York: Harcourt, 1979.
A Lifetime Burning. Boston: Random House, 1982.
The Magic Carpet. (Short stories.) Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1987.
Can’t Quit You, Baby. New York: Atheneum, 1988.
Nonfiction
Truth: Four Stories I Am Finally Old Enough to Tell. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books, 1998.
