Ellen Gilchrist
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Ellen Gilchrist (born February 20, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet.
Victory Over Japan, her 1984 collection of short stories, received a National Book Award.
Life
Gilchrist was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and spent a portion of her childhood on a plantation owned by her maternal grandparents. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and pursued creative writing at Millsaps College with renowned writer Eudora Welty. Gilchrist enrolled in the University of Arkansas' creative writing program later in life, but she did not complete her MFA. Gilchrist has been married and divorced four times (two marriages and divorces were with the same man) and has three children, fourteen grandchildren, and two grandchildren. She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Ocean Springs, Mississippi. At the University of Arkansas, she was a professor of creative writing and contemporary fiction.