Alias Simon Suggs: The Life and Times of Johnson Jones Hooper (Library of Alabama Classics)

a OC When these words were written everybody "had "read or heard of Simon Suggs, the shifty man whose antics had been recorded in many a gusty tale of Alabama frontier life which had drawn laughter and applause from newspaper readers throughout the United States. And everybody, at least in Alabama in the 1850s, knew something about his creator, Johnson Jones Hooper. . . . The immortal Suggs, his alter ego, has kept his name alive and renewed its luster, in a biography that deserves almost unqualified praise. Dr. HooleOCOs "Alias Simon Suggs "is a noteworthy achievement. . . . A milestone in contemporary Alabama scholarship, it will become a standard reference work on the literary and political scene and] as a distinguished piece of biographical writing, skillfully organized and deftly presented.OCOOCo"Alabama"" Review" " A study of realism and folk literature and of the sources and techniques of storytelling Alias Simon Suggs is a study in the life and writings of Johnson J. Hooper of Alabama, and is a masterful contribution to American biography and to American literature. Extensively documented with illuminating footnotes and revealing references, its style is direct and captivating and will appeal to those who enjoy entertaining biography will relish the privilege of reading it. Simon Suggs is the shifty man whose antics had been recorded in many a gusty tale of Alabama frontier life which had drawn laughter and applause from newspaper readers throughout the United States. This is the biography of Suggs, and his alter ego.