Don Noble
Jennifer Horne in 2022
Jennifer Horne in 2022
BornArkansas, U.S.
Occupationwriter, poet
EducationHendrix College
University of Alabama
Genre
  • poetry
  • creative non-fiction
  • fiction
  • essay
SpouseJennifer Horne

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.

Early Life and Education

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Noble holds a B.A. and an M.A. from SUNY-Albany. After receiving a Ph.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill, Noble joined the English Department at the University of Alabama in 1969 and is now Professor Emeritus of English. Noble has been a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in the former Yugoslavia (1983–1984) and Romania (1991–1992) and has been on the faculty and the director of the Alabama in Oxford Program and director of the Alabama in Ireland Program.

Career

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He is the editor of volumes on Harper Lee, Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Fitzgerald and three collections of Alabama fiction, Climbing Mt. Cheaha, A State of Laughter, and Belles’ Letters (with Jennifer Horne).

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Awards

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He has been inducted into the international scholars society Phi Beta Delta. In 2000, Noble received the Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Literary Scholar, and in 2013 he received the Wayne Greenhaw Service Award in Recognition of Exemplary Service from the Alabama Humanities Foundation. In 2017 he received both The Governor’s Arts Award from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, and the Literary Educator Award from the Arts and Humanities Council of West Alabama in the Druid Arts Awards. With Brent Davis, he received a regional Emmy in 1996 for Excellence in Screenwriting for the documentary I’m in the Truth Business: William Bradford Huie.

Personal Life

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Horne is married to poet and writer Jennifer Horne, a former Poet Laureate of Alabama[1]. They live in Cottondale, Alabama.[2]

Published works

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  • Noble (Ed.), Don (2004). Climbing Mt. Cheaha: Emerging Alabama Writers. Livingston: Livingston Press. ISBN 9781931982399.

References

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  1. ^ Stefanescu, Alina. "A conversation with Alabama State Poet Laureate, Jennifer Horne". AlabamaWritersCooperative.org. Alabama Writers' Cooperative. Retrieved December 16, 2023.
  2. ^ "Author Listing: Jennifer Horne". www.alabamawritersforum.org/. Alabama Writers Forum. Retrieved December 26, 2023.