15 Facts About Ellen Gilchrist

Ellen Louise Gilchrist was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet.

Ellen Gilchrist won a National Book Award for her 1984 collection of short stories, Victory Over Japan.

Ellen Louise Gilchrist was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on February 20,1935.

Ellen Gilchrist spent part of her childhood on a plantation owned by her maternal grandparents.

Ellen Gilchrist earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and studied creative writing under renowned writer Eudora Welty at Millsaps College.

Later in life, Gilchrist enrolled in the creative writing program at the University of Arkansas, where she received an MFA.

Ellen Gilchrist was married and divorced four times and had three children.

Ellen Gilchrist lived in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

Ellen Gilchrist was a professor of creative writing and contemporary fiction at the University of Arkansas.

Ellen Gilchrist's work was noted for its focus on culture and society in the South.

Ellen Gilchrist was heard regularly as a commentator on National Public Radio's Morning Edition from 1984 to 1985.

Ellen Gilchrist died from breast cancer at home in Ocean Springs on the evening of January 30,2024, at the age of 88.

Ellen Gilchrist was survived by her sons Pierre Gilchrist, Marshall Peteet Walker Jr.

Ellen Gilchrist won awards for her poetry, although it was her short fiction for which she was most well-known.

Ellen Gilchrist's stories are often praised for the characters that reappear regularly throughout her many volumes of short stories.