Rheta Grimsley Johnson recalls Charles Rose, vibrant and true
One NewSouth author remembered another this past month. Syndicated newspaper columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson called her former Auburn University English professor Charles Rose “vibrant and true” in her weekly column; Rose died June 6, 2011 at the age of 80. Johnson, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated columnist and author of Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir, took Rose’s creative writing course at Auburn in the 1970s …
In memory of writer and teacher Charles Rose
Writer and teacher Charles Rose died this past week in Auburn, Alabama. He taught literature at Auburn University for thirty-four years, and was the author of numerous short stories, screenplays, and the memoir In the Midst of Life: A Hospice Volunteer’s Story. His collection of short stories, A Ford in the River, is forthcoming from NewSouth Books …
Short Story by Author Charles Rose in the Alabama Literary Review
A short story by Charles Rose, author of In the Midst of Life, was recently featured in the Alabama Literary Review …
In the Midst of Life Called Stunning by Southern Humanities Review
The most recent issue of Auburn University’s Southern Humanities Review examines Charles Rose’s hospice volunteer memoir In the Midst of Life, calling it “stunning in its subtle juxtapositions of the sublime and the mundane, the ethereal and the earthly” …
In the Midst of Life Author Interview Available Online
An interview with Charles Rose, author of the NewSouth book In the Midst of Life, is now available for download …