Don Noble | |
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 Don Noble in 2022 | |
| Born | December 11, 1941 Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S. |
| Occupation | journalist, essayist, literary critic |
| Education | University at Albany, SUNY University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Spouse | Jennifer 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. [1]
Noble earned bachelor’s and master’s in English at University at Albany, SUNY. He then earned a doctorate in Southern literature at the UNC Chapel Hill. He relocated to Tuscaloosa in 1969 and taught American literature at the University of Alabama until 2001. [2]
In addition to his teaching career, Noble is the author of numerous works of literary criticism, including books about Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, John Steinbeck, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. He has also edited anthologies of fiction, including one with his wife Jennifer Horne, a past Poet Laureate of Alabama. [3] In 2023, he began a podcast titled "Alabama Aloud" that presents humorous short fiction by writers from the state. [4]
Noble has served on the boards of the Alabama Humanities Alliance, the Alabama Writers’ Forum, and the Alabama School for the Fine Arts. [5]
His awards include a regional Emmy for Achievement in Screenwriting with Brent Davis for a documentary on Alabama writer William Bradford Huie. Noble was the recipient of the 2000 Eugene Current-Garcia Award, [6] the 2013 Wayne Greenhaw Service Award from the Alabama Humanities Alliance, [7] and the 2017 Governor’s Arts Award given by the Alabama State Council on the Arts. [8]
Horne is married to poet and writer Jennifer Horne, a former Poet Laureate of Alabama. [9] They live in Cottondale, Alabama. [10]
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