My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charis….

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tr….

I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie.

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it..

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army un….

I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, wit….

When I started driving our old four-door green DeSoto, I always took Skip on my trips around town. I would get Skip to prop himself against the steer….

I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight and pointing, hi….

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it..

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last..