Andrews, Carol M
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Encyclopedia article about Brainard Cheney. Cheney was a twentieth-century novelist, political speechwriter, and essayist from the wiregrass region of south Georgia. During a writing career that spanned four decades, Cheney published four novels--Lightwood (1939), River Rogue (1942), This Is Adam (1958), and Devil's Elbow (1969)--that depict the social transformation of south Georgia between 1870 and 1960. These novels contain accounts of Cheney's own coming of age (Devil's Elbow) as well as land feuds (Lightwood), timber rafting (River Rogue), and race relations (This Is Adam) in the area where he grew up. Along with his wife, Frances Neel Cheney, he was a member of a community of writers that included Caroline Gordon, Allen Tate, Andrew Lytle, Robert Penn Warren, and Flannery O'Connor.
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Price, Michael E
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- Cheney, Brainard, 1900
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- Speechwriters
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