GuiltyFeat | Ellen Gilchrist, 1935-2024 @GuiltyFeat | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
I was very sad to hear about the death of Ellen Gilchrist, an author that I have read exhaustively over the past 30+ years. My 11th grade English teacher first read her short stories to me. He would try on all the accents of the various genteel Southern ladies that populate Gilchrist's work, chugging their juleps and complaining about the air conditioning. I was smitten. As I slowly morphed into becoming an independent reader, buying books for pleasure, I stuck with Gilchrist until I could no longer buy her books in the UK.
Fortunately that coincided with me starting to travel to the US for business and I gladly picked up where I had left off, reading each new book as I found it, often remaindered.
Her recurring characters have brought me much joy and glimpses of hard-earned wisdom. I am sad that I will have no new books of hers to track down and savour.
NY Times obit - nytimes.com/2024/02/11/books/ellen-gilchrist-dead.html
WashPo obit - washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/02/02/ellen-gilchrist-dead
I was very sad to hear about the death of Ellen Gilchrist, an author that I have read exhaustively over the past 30+ years. My 11th grade English teacher first read her short stories to me. He would try on all the accents of the various genteel Southern ladies that populate Gilchrist's work, chugging their juleps and complaining about the air conditioning. I was smitten. As I slowly morphed into becoming an independent reader, buying books for pleasure, I stuck with Gilchrist until I could no longer buy her books in the UK.
Fortunately that coincided with me starting to travel to the US for business and I gladly picked up where I had left off, reading each new book as I found it, often remaindered.
Her recurring characters have brought me much joy and glimpses of hard-earned wisdom. I am sad that I will have no new books of hers to track down and savour.
NY Times obit - nytimes.com/2024/02/11/books/ellen-gilchrist-dead.html
WashPo obit - washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/02/02/ellen-gilchrist-dead
