Captain Billy's Troopers: A Writer's Life
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (723 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0817318763 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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“William Cobb is an extraordinarily gifted raconteur who has written a memoir that reads like the best fast-paced and page-turning novel—a raw, poignant, and elegiac book of profound wisdom.” —Pat Conroy, author of South of Broad and The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
To Be Honest and True Patti M. Marxsen Bill Cobb's writing life has run the gamut from success among the literati of the Big Apple to success in the academic world (sans PhD) to awards and accolades and a hard-earned place to stand in the literary landscape of his beloved South. For a few brief years in the 1970s I was a very young "faculty wife" floating among the fringe elements of the University of Montevallo and, lucky for me, became close to Bill and Loretta Cobb. I to. "I couldn't put this book down" according to Delores J. Jordan. I found the book to be a fascinating read. I didn't give him five stars because he is my friend, but because I sat down with the book, and I couldn't put it down. Bill takes us through his life as an aspiring author to an accomplished author. The one thing that impressed me is that he never sold himself out. He wanted to write Southern literature, and he succeeded in doing this, with the writing being far more important than the accola
His unflinching memoir narrates both the milestones and telling details of his intense therapy and years in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Along the way, readers relish his first experiences of love and success as a writer, leading to a career as a professor of writing at Alabama College (now the University of Montevallo) in 1963. In this audacious memoir, William Cobb reveals the tumultuous creative life of a distinguished practitioner of southern and Alabama storytelling. Like a curving river, the broad sweep of Cobb’s turbulent life includes both startling cataracts and desultory eddies, leading sometimes into shadows or opening into unexpected sunlight. The capstone of his comeback was winning the Harper Lee Award in 2007 for distinguished f