Alabama Authors Directory

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Norman McMillan

Hometown: Greensboro, AL Lives in: Montevallo, AL

Contact Information

  • Email: mcmillan42@charter.net

Address:

    • 325 Pineview Road
      Montevallo, AL 35115
      United States
  • Phone: (205) 907-8199
  • Preferred Contact Method: Any

 

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About Norman McMillan

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama

Available for: Readings, Workshops, School Programs, In Person

Bio:

Norman McMillan was born near Greensboro, AL in 1942 and lived there until moving to Ralph, AL in 1951. He is a graduate of Tuscaloosa County High School (1960), and he completed his B.A. (1964) and his M.A. (1967) at the University of Alabama. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1971. He taught English at the University of Montevallo from 1971 until his retirement in 2000. He is married to Joan Shannon McMillan and has two children, Sally and John.

Works: Distant Son: An Alabama Boyhood. Cahaba Trace Commission. 2002. (Memoir)
The Gold-Plated Scarab. GreyWalk Books. 2022. (Short stories)
Truman Capote: Against a Copper Sky. First produced by the Alabama Writers Symposium in Monroeville, AL, …Read More in 2002. Subsequently produced by the Montevallo Main Street Players (2002) and by the Mobile Public Library in Bernheim Hall (2004) (Drama)
Ashes of Roses, based on stories by Mary Ward Brown. First produced by Auburn University in Montgomery (2006). Subsequently produced by the Montevallo Main Street Players (2006) and by Marion Institute and Judson College (2010). (Drama)
Fireball, based on a memoir by Hazel Lindsey and Julia Walker. Produced by the Montevallo Main Street Players (2024). (Drama)

Awards:

Eugene Current-Garcia Award (2008)

Outstanding Teacher Award, South Atlantic Association of Departments of English (1993).

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