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  <name><![CDATA[Breece D'J Pancake]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Breece D'J Pancake was an American author of short fiction.

Breece Dexter Pancake was born in South Charleston, West Virginia, the youngest child of Clarence &quot;Wicker&quot; Pancake and Helen Frazier Pancake, and was raised in Milton, West Virginia. Pancake briefly attended West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon before transferring to Marshall University in Huntington where he completed a bachelor's degree in English education in 1974. After graduating from Marshall he spent time out West, visiting his sister in Santa Fe. As a graduate student he studied at the University of Virginia's creative writing program under John Casey and James Alan McPherson. Pancake also worked as an English teacher at two Virginia military academies, Fork Union and Staunton.

While at the University of Virginia, Pancake deliberately styled himself as an uncultured hillbilly, distancing himself from the mostly erudite students at the prestigious school. He was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting, fishing and camping. Pancake was a devout fan of the music of folk singer Phil Ochs, who had attended Staunton Military Academy, where Pancake later taught. His favorite song was Ochs' &quot;Jim Dean of Indiana&quot;. Ochs committed suicide exactly three years and a day before Pancake. 

The unusual middle name &quot;D'J&quot; originated from a misprint of Pancake's middle initials by The Atlantic Monthly (D.J., for Dexter John) when Pancake's first published story, &lt;i&gt;Trilobites&lt;/i&gt; was published in 1977. Pancake decided not to correct it. Dexter is Pancake's middle name, while John is the name Pancake adopted after converting to Catholicism in his mid-20s.

Pancake died from a self-inflicted shotgun wound in Charlottesville, Virginia. His death was officially labeled a suicide, although there has, over the years, been some debate from people who believe the gunshot may have been an accident. Pancake was buried in Milton.
]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>South Charleston, West Virginia</hometown>  <born_at>06/29/1952</born_at>  <died_at>04/08/1979</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake]]></title>
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  <average_rating>4.27</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>515</ratings_count>
  <published>1983</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Stories of the Modern South: Revised Edition]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Breece D'J Pancake]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Eudora Welty]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Carson McCullers]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Flannery O'Connor]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Truman Capote]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Fred Chappell]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Andre Dubus]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Breece D'J Pancake]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tennessee Williams]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ellen Gilchrist]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jayne Anne Phillips]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[William Faulkner]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Katherine Anne Porter]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ernest Gaines]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Caroline Gordon]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Reynolds Price]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[William Goyen]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Barry Hannah]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Eve Shelnutt]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Patrick S.J. Samway]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1574773]]></link>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth Spencer]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Madison Jones]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Peter Taylor]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Hunter Kay]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[James Agee]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Barth]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[David Madden]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Anne Tyler]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Doris Betts]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alice Walker]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert Penn Warren]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[John McCuskey Jr.]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.86</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>14</ratings_count>
  <published>1995</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Trilobites and Other Stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Breece D'J Pancake]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.18</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>11</ratings_count>
  <published>1992</published>  
  
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