| 1989 | Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. This critical and popular success by the North Carolina-born writer concerns Lily Marsden, who marries a Confederate veteran when she is only fifteen and later recalls his anguished and florid memories of the Civil War. Critics praise the sheer zest of Gurganus's work and his ability to inhabit the persona of the loquacious Lily, an ebullient voice able to imitate the voices of all the characters in her husband's stories as told to her. |




