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Ellen Gilchrist Research Paper

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Ellen Gilchrist is an award-winning American poet, writer, and radio-personality. She is best known for her works like Victory over Japan, where she won a 1984 National Book Award, and The Age of Miracles. Ellen Louise Gilchrist was born Wednesday, February 20th, 1935 in Vicksburg, MS to Aurora Alford and William Garth Gilchrist. She was their second child. Much of her childhood life was spent moving around because of her father’s work in the army. Ms. Gilchrist was writing at an early age. When she was fourteen, she wrote a column called “Chit and Chat about This and That,” for the local paper in Franklin, Kentucky. Ellen then went on to study at Vanderbilt University, in Memphis, TN, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in

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