Ellen Gilchrist, 1984 National Book Award winner for ‘Victory Over Japan,’ dies at 88

Ellen Gilchrist, 1984 National Book Award winner for ‘Victory Over Japan,’ dies at 88

JACKSON, Miss. — Ellen Gilchrist, a National Book Award winner whose short stories and novels drew on the complexities of people and places in the American South, has died. She was 88. An obituary from her family said Gilchrist died Tuesday in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where she had lived in her final years. Gilchrist published … Read more