Louise Jones DuBose
Louise Jones DuBose (1901 – 1985), who sometimes wrote under the pen name Nancy Telfair, was an American author, educator, and reporter.[1][2]
Louise Jones DuBose was born in 1901 to Rev. Frank Dudley Jones and Catherine Wyman.[1] She attended Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia and Chicora College for Women in Columbia, South Carolina. She then studied at the University of South Carolina from which she received a bachelor's degree in 1920.[3]
She wrote A History of Columbus, Georgia. She wrote plays. She published a collection of folktales. She wrote about Blondelle Malone.
She was an associate editor of South Carolina Magazine and was the second director of the University of South Carolina Press (1950–1966).[4] She wrote scripts for the Palmetto Landmarks radio program.
For the Works Progress Administration (WPA), she worked under Mabel Montgomery on the South Carolina Writing Project. She conducted interviews and took photographs.
Several of her recipes were published.[5]
Recognition
DuBose was interviewed in 1981 for the South Carolina Oral History Collection. In 2001, DuBose was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors.[1] The South Carolina Library at the University of South Carolina has a collection of her papers.[6]
Writings
See also
- Ambrose E. Gonzales, writer
References
- 1 2 3 Mack, Tom (30 January 2014). The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-61117-348-2. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ↑ "Collection: Louise Jones DuBose Papers | ArchivesSpace Public Interface". archivesspace.columbusstate.edu.
- 1 2 3 "DuBose, Louise Jones".
- ↑ https://www.scacademyofauthors.com/dubose.html
- ↑ Kurlansky, Mark (May 14, 2009). "The Food of a Younger Land: A portrait of American food from the lost WPA files". Penguin – via Google Books.
- ↑ Mack, Tom (January 30, 2014). "The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers". Univ of South Carolina Press – via Google Books.