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Wade Hall

Wade Hall

Wade Hall is professor emeritus of English at Bellarmine College in Kentucky. He received a BS from Troy State University, and MA from the University of Alabama, and a PhD from the University of Illinois. The author and editor of numerous books, including Conecuh People: Words of Life from the Alabama Black Belt, he served as editor of the Kentucky Poetry Review for more than 15 years.

Books by Wade Hall

Reflections of the Civil War in Southern Humor (1962)

The Smiling Phoenix: Southern Humor, 1865-1914 (1965)

The Truth is Funny: A Study of Jesse Stuart’s Humor (1970)

The High Limb: Poems by Wade Hall (1973)

This Place Kentucky (1975)

The Kentucky Book (1979)

The Rest of the Dream: The Black Odyssey of Lyman Johnson (1988)

Greetings from Kentucky: A Post Card Tour, 1900-1950 (1994)

Sacred Violence: A Reader’s Companion to Cormac McCarthy (1995)

A Visit with Harlan Hubbard (1995)

Passing for Black: The Life and Careers of Mae Street Kidd (1996)

Complete Conviction: The Private Life of Wilson W. Wyatt, Sr. (1996)

Hell-Bent for Music: The Life of Pee Wee King (1996)

One Man’s Lincoln: Billy Herndon (Honestly) Represents Abe (1997)

James Still: Portrait of the Artist as a Boy in Alabama (1998)

High Upon a Hill: A History of Bellarmine College (1999)

Shady Grove (2002)

Conecuh People: Words of Life from the Alabama Black Belt (2004; hardcover)

Conecuh People: Words of Life from the Alabama Black Belt (2004; paperback)

Jesse Stuart: The Heritage (2005)

The Kentucky Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State (2005)

And All the Layered Light
(2007)

An Interview with Abraham Lincoln: April 1, 1865 (2010)