6/28/2023 0 Comments Winston groomIn the Big Apple, the newly single Groom spent little time writing. Willie Morris, the newspaper's writer-in-residence believed that young Groom had the potential to become a writer and encouraged him to go to New York. After a stint in the Army, Groom returned to Washington, D.C., where he worked as a reporter on the now defunct Washington Star, covering the political and court beat. Groom was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Mobile, Alabama, on the Gulf Coast. While the South is more evident in his novels, Groom's non-fiction also echoes his Southern roots. Following the tradition of other Southern writers like William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, and Pat Conroy, Groom lovingly peoples his books with quirky characters who pay homage to Southern history and the modern-day South in a single breath. His characters speak with Southern voices, and life in his novels moves according to a distinctly Southern timeline. His Southernness permeates both his novels and his non-fiction. Winston Groom is a Southern novelist in the truest sense of the word.
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