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Ellen Douglas is the pseudonym of Mississippi author Josephine Haxton.
She received a grant from the National Endowment Association to complete
The Rock Cried Out (1979), which won a literature award from the
Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. In this novel, a young
man returns home to Mississippi where he seeks to understand the
tragic death of a beautiful cousin seven years earlier in the midst
of the 1964 Freedom Summer. |