Allan Gurganus

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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1988
  • Latest Book:
    January 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Falls, North Carolina

1 - Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (Apr-1991)
2 - Local Souls: Novellas (Sep-2013)

Book List in Order: 13 titles

  • Good Help

  • Blessed Assurance

    Allan Gurganus was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. He lives in Manhattan and in Chapel Hill. Gurganus's short fiction has appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic, Granta, Antaeus, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. He has won many award...

  • White People

    A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book In eleven glorious stories, Allan Gurganus, author of the highly acclaimed Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, gives heart-breaking and hilarious voice to the fears, desires, and triu...

  • Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

    Falls, North Carolina - 1

    Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and readers alike fell in love with the voice of ninety-nine-year-old Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and ...

  • Plays Well with Others

    In his widely read, prizewinning Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus gave fresh meaning to an overexplored American moment: 1860-65. He now turns that comic intensity and historical vision to another war zone: entry-level artist...

  • The Practical Heart

    A luminous quartet, five years in the writing, reveals even more fully the breathtaking range of "a storyteller in the grand tradition" (New York Times).Allan Gurganus's voice--by turn bawdy and serene, folkloric and profane--deepens as it soars into...

  • A Family Named Spot

    One of America’s most highly regarded photographers, Burk Uzzle has claimed a territory all his own as a chronicler of the quirky and strangely beautiful in the vast American landscape. A Family Named Spot gathers seventy-seven black-and-white phot...

  • New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2006

    This year, acclaimed short-story writer ZZ Packer chooses twenty distinctive stories representing the great number of voices and narratives coming out of the South. Some of the youngest and freshest talents on the literary horizon-Bret Anthony Johnst...

  • Local Souls

    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award (Fiction) and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection“This book underscores what we have long known -- Gurgan...



  • Local Souls: Novellas

    Falls, North Carolina - 2

    Offering his first book in a decade, Allan Gurganus returns us to Falls, North Carolina, mythic site of his immortal Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. With three linked, darkly funny novellas, Gurganus charts the old habits--adultery, obsess...

  • Decoy

    “If there remains any doubt about Allan Gurganus’s literary greatness, Local Souls should put this to rest forever.” -- Jamie Quatro, New York Times Book Review Decoy, the concluding novella of Allan Gurganus’s hugely acclaimed Local Souls, w...

  • A Fool for Christmas

    During the Christmas season, mall pet store manager Vernon Ricketts splits his time between selling irresistible puppies and kittens festooned with holiday bows and shielding the mall's loiterers from its over-zealous manager, “Terminator” Vander...

  • The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus

    One of “the best writers of our time” (Ann Patchett) offers this hilarious yet haunting cycle of stories -- all previously uncollected. Since the explosive publication of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus has dazzled read...

Award-Winning Books by Allan Gurganus

The Practical Heart
2001 Lambda Literary Award -- Gay Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Allan Gurganus has published 13 books.

Allan Gurganus does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus, was published in January 2021.

The first book by Allan Gurganus, Good Help, was published in January 1988.

Yes. Allan Gurganus has 1 series.
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