![]() Gwin is the author of three novels: The Queen of Palmyra, a Barnes Noble Discover Great New Writers pick and finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award Promise, which was shortlisted for the Willie Morris Award in Southern Literature and The Accidentals, which is the 2020 winner of the Mississippi Institute for Arts and Letters Award in Fiction.Ī writer all of her working life, Gwin started out as a newspaper and wire service reporter working in Mobile, Atlanta, Nashville, as well as Knoxville. Gwin received both her MA and PhD in English from the University of Tennessee. Gwin’s memoir, Wishing for Snow, is the story of her relationship with her mother. Her mother was a poet who became mentally ill and later died of cancer. Gwin was raised by grandparents in Tupelo until age 7, when her mother remarried. ![]() ![]() Mississippi writer Minrose Clayton Gwin was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1945 where she was raised by her mother, Erin Taylor Clayton Pitner. Author Minrose Gwin, photo courtesy of the author ![]()
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