I was born and raised in Charleston, SC.
I grew up in Birmingham, Ala. Nobody really blow up from Birmingham, Ala.
Atlanta is my home.
Nan Gorman was born in Memphis, Tenn., on St. Patrick's Day. She moved to Hazard in 1929 when her father, James Hagan, a recent medical school graduate and aspiring surgeon, went to work there.
Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of.
Atlanta is still going to be my summer place. My family is still going to be there.
Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.
I love Atlanta. I feel really at home in Atlanta. We spent a lot of time there. But Athens is like home to me.
I love Atlanta.
So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.
I lived in Atlanta for a couple of years while getting my masters at Georgia State. I thought I hated it at the time, but I've been back a couple of times since, and there's no place I've lived to which returning is so much like visiting a place I only remember from my dreams.
New Orleans in an amazing town.
