User:Jpalmerbrown/Alabama Jane Brown

September 6, 2001

ALABAMA JANE BROWN, born Patti Jane McGee, January, 20, 1954 is a southern writer who experiments in "southern gothic magical realism" a phrase coined by Ms. Brown after having difficulty relying on previous genres to describe her novel, Sinner From The South, Published by Editio Press,  February, 2011.

Ms. Brown attended Judson College, an all female college in Marion, Alabama where she earned her Bachelors Degree in English Literature. She later attended the University of Alabama and pursued an MFA in Creative Writing and studied under Barry Hannah. Hannah, heralded Ms. Brown's work to be a combination of Erica Jong's newly published 'Fear of Flying' and the work of Flannery O'Connor, another southern writer who was pigeonholed into the "southern gothic" vernacular.

Ms. Brown's first pubished work, Sinner From The South, has gained a cult following in magical realism circles. It is the story of Katharine (Kitty) Tallulah Bankhead, (Ms. Bankhead, a distant cousin to Ms. Brown). The story takes an epic turn when Kitty acts on a mandate from God and kills her preacher, Glen Duvall. A prevailing theme is Redemption and overcoming addictions and heroism. It isn't until the end of the novel that the reader is caught up in the prevailing theme of good over evil in the form of the supernatural or Magical Realism.

Ms. Brown lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and is the first cousin to Eddie Hinton, the blue-eyed soul singer also from Tuscaloosa. She is descended from the first poet laureate of Alabama, Philander Alexander LaVergy and from Sir William Lauderdale-Maitland, the poet laureate of Scotland.

Ms. Brown's second novel, THE SOUTHERN CROSS is scheduled for publication in June 2013.