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Lewis Nordan

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born

August 23, 1939 in Forest, Mississippi, The United States

died

April 13, 2012

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Nonfiction

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Lewis Nordan

Born August 23, 1939 (age 72)
Forest, Mississippi

Lewis Nordan (born August 23, 1939 in Forest, Mississippi) grew up in Itta Bena, Mississippi. He is a graduate of Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1983, at age forty-five, Nordan published his first collection of stories, Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair. The collection established him as a writer in the grotesque Southern tradition of William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, and Flannery O'Connor. It also established a place for Nordan’s fiction, the fictional Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, a small town in the Mississippi Delta based loosely on Nordan’s hometown of Itta Bena.

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Books by Lewis Nordan

Average rating: 3.73 · 3,913 ratings · 321 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Wolf Whistle 4.05 avg rating — 332 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Music of the Swamp 4.11 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Sharpshooter Blues 4.13 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Lightning Song 3.83 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Sugar Among the Freaks 4.16 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Boy with Loaded Gun: A Memoir 3.46 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	The All-Girl Football Team 3.84 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair 3.86 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell, Lewis Nordan (Foreword by) 3.62 avg rating — 2,565 ratings — published 1932 — 38 editions	My rating:
	God's Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell, Lewis Nordan (Foreword by) 3.59 avg rating — 467 ratings — published 1933 — 29 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Lewis Nordan

“There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.”
― Lewis Nordan

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“When I was your age I knew how to listen to television and learn a few things.”
― Lewis Nordan, The All-Girl Football Team

tags: parental-advice , television

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“For one second the woman and I seemed to become twins, or closer than twins, the same person together. Maybe we said nothing. Maybe we only lay in the band of sunlight that fell across our bed. Or maybe together we said, “There is great pain in all love, but we don’t care, it’s worth it.”
― Lewis Nordan, Music of the Swamp

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