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Howard Bahr (1946- ) is an American novelist, born in Meridian, Mississippi. Bahr, who served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War and then worked for several years on the railroads, enrolled at the University of Mississippi in the early 1970s when he was in his late 20s. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Ole Miss and served as the curator of the William Faulkner house, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi for nearly twenty years. He also taught American literature during much of this time at the University of Mississippi. In 1993, he became an instructor of English at Motlow State College in Tullahoma, Tennessee, where he worked until 2006. Bahr is the author of three critica...more From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Howard Bahr (1946- ) is an American novelist, born in Meridian, Mississippi. Bahr, who served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War and then worked for several years on the railroads, enrolled at the University of Mississippi in the early 1970s when he was in his late 20s. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Ole Miss and served as the curator of the William Faulkner house, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi for nearly twenty years. He also taught American literature during much of this time at the University of Mississippi. In 1993, he became an instructor of English at Motlow State College in Tullahoma, Tennessee, where he worked until 2006. Bahr is the author of three critically acclaimed novels centering around the American Civil War. He currently resides in Jackson, Mississippi, and teaches courses in creative writing at Belhaven College.

Bahr began his writing career in the 1970s, writing both fiction and non-fiction articles that appeared in publications such as Southern Living, Civil War Times Illustrated, as well as the short-lived regional publication, Lagniappe (1974-75) which he and Franklin Walker co-edited. His first published book, a children's story entitled Home for Christmas, came out in 1987 and was re-published in 1997 in a different edition (with new illustrations) following the release of his first novel, The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War. This latter book, set during the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee in 1864, was nominated for a number of national awards, including from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Gettysburg College, and the Book-of-the-Month Club, and was a New York Times Notable Book, but its release was somewhat overshadowed by the release at the same time of the bestseller, Cold Mountain.

In 2000, Bahr's second novel, The Year of Jubilo, was released. This novel, set in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War in the fictional Mississippi town of Cumberland, deals with the dehumanizing effects of war and its aftermath on Southern society. The Year of Jubilo, like The Black Flower, was a New York Times Notable Book.

Bahr's third novel, The Judas Field, was released in 2006. In The Judas Field, Bahr again returns to the Battle of Franklin theme, but this time it is through the eyes of one of its participants, again from Cumberland, who travels back to the battlefield in the 1880s to recover the body of one of the fallen, and, in doing so, relives the horror of that fateful day in 1864.

Howard Bahr is a Freemason, having served as Master of the Lodge while he was in Oxford. He is also a member of the Episcopal Church.(less)

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Average rating: 3.92 · 721 ratings · 140 reviews · 9 distinct works

	The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War 3.98 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War 3.96 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War 3.77 avg rating — 145 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Pelican Road 3.59 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit 3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Home For Christmas 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Navajo as Seen by the Franciscans, 1920-1950: A Sourcebook 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Toward More Family-Centered Family Sciences: Love, Sacrifice, and Transcendence by Howard Bahr, Kathleen Bahr 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs they Quit by Winston Groom, Howard Bahr, Brad Watson, Howard Bahr, Brad Watson 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Recent Social Trends in the United States, 1960-1990 by Theodore Caplow, Bruce Chadwick, Howard Bahr 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“In spite of all he had seen, Cass still believed in the fundamental decency of cats and men. He knew that God believed in it, too, in spite of all He’d seen – iin spite of all His grieving and all the lies told about Him down the bloody ages. He was God after all, and had made all creatures, and He had taken the noble chance of granting to one of them a will of its own, and in the end, the gift had been worth all the trouble. Maybe the right to choose was the best gift of all and the best proof of love. It was more precious even than life itself, for without the possibility of defeat, the victories would have no meaning.”
― Howard Bahr, The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War

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March - Geraldine Brooks

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