Allan Gurganus

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June 11, 1947 in Rocky Mount, NC, The United States

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Average rating: 3.80 · 2,658 ratings · 298 reviews · 23 distinct works

	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All 3.75 avg rating — 1,691 ratings — published 1984 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Plays Well with Others by Allan Gurganus, Peter A. Anderson (Designed by) 4.01 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions	My rating:
	White People 3.94 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Practical Heart 3.69 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions	My rating:
	New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2006 by Allan Gurganus (Editor), Kathy Pories (Editor) 3.95 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Blessed Assurance: A Moral Tale 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1990	My rating:
	Breathing Lessons 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1981	My rating:
	Fourteen Feet of Water in My House 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Oldest Living Confederate Widow: Her Confession: A Play by Allan Gurganus, Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (Part 1 of 2) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1992	My rating:

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“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
― Allan Gurganus

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“Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you've changed into that very simple shape. ”
― Allan Gurganus, White People

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“The tree feels splintery, nasty to my touch; it feels Floridian, more reptile than vegetable, more stucco than stone. I do loathe this state, their Elba.”
― Allan Gurganus, Plays Well with Others

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