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Image of the cover of the book Appalachee Red (1978), the first novel in the Muskhogean trilogy by Georgia author Raymond Andrews. The cover features a sketch of an African American man wearing a white suit and hat. He holds a cigarette in his right hand. This novel tells the story of a large, red-skinned black man who changes everything for African Americans in the small town of Appalachee, which is based on the town of Madison, Georgia.Raymond Andrews was a widely acclaimed novelist and chronicler of the African American experience in north central Georgia. Appalachee Red, his first novel, won the James Baldwin Prize for fiction in 1979.

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New Georgia Encyclopedia

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Digital Library of Georgia