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Don Noble is an Alabama writer and literary critic. He is host of the long-running Alabama Public Television author interview program Bookmark, the book reviewer for Alabama Public Radio, and a professor emeritus of English at the University of Alabama.[1]

Education and career

Noble earned bachelor’s and master’s in English at University at Albany, SUNY. He then earned a doctorate in Southern literature at the UNC Chapel Hill. He relocated to Tuscaloosa in 1969 and taught American literature at the University of Alabama until 2001.[2]

In addition to his teaching career, Noble is the author of numerous works of literary criticism, including books about Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, John Steinbeck, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. He has also edited anthologies of fiction, including one with his wife Jennifer Horne, a past Poet Laureate of Alabama.[3] In 2023, he began a podcast titled "Alabama Aloud" that presents humorous short fiction by writers from the state.[4]

Noble has served on the boards of the Alabama Humanities Alliance, the Alabama Writers’ Forum, and the Alabama School for the Fine Arts.[5]

Awards

His awards include a regional Emmy for Achievement in Screenwriting with Brent Davis for a documentary on Alabama writer William Bradford Huie. Noble was the recipient of the 2000 Eugene Current-Garcia Award,[6] the 2013 Wayne Greenhaw Service Award from the Alabama Humanities Alliance,[7] and the 2017 Governor’s Arts Award given by the Alabama State Council on the Arts.[8]

Personal life

Horne is married to poet and writer Jennifer Horne, a former Poet Laureate of Alabama.[9] They live in Cottondale, Alabama.[10]

Published works

References

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