a number of years, Gurganus returned to North Carolina, where he co-founded the political group Writers Against Jesse Helms and, as a result, appeared as himself in Tim Kirkman's 1998 documentary Dear Jesse. Gurganus has also taken a position against the Iraq War, most notably by citing his Vietnam War experience in an essay published in The New York Times Magazine, "The War at Home", published April 6, 2003, a few weeks after the invasion. Gurganus was also the inaugural guest editor of New Stories From the South, an annual collection of notable fiction by Southern writers published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, in 2006. He is the recipient of an Ingram Merrill Award and a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship. Bibliography Novels Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1989) Plays Well with Others (1997) The Erotic History of a Southern Baptist Church (forthcoming) Novella Blessed Assurance: A Moral Tale (1990) Story collections White People (1991) The Practical Heart (1993 [limited edition], 2001 [trade edition]) Local Souls (2013) The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus (2021) Online short stories The Wish for a Good Young Country Doctor - published in The New Yorker on April 27, 2020 See also Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (film) References External links Allan Gurganus's website Audio: Allan Gurganus at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2009: "A Still Small Voice Under the Cannonade" Radio Interview with Allan Gurganus on "Read First, Ask Later" (Ep. 22) 1947 births Living people 20th-century American novelists American male novelists University of Iowa alumni Sarah Lawrence College alumni Duke University faculty American gay writers Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction winners LGBT people from North Carolina Novelists from North Carolina Stanford University faculty Sarah Lawrence College faculty Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni American LGBT novelists American male short story writers 20th-century American short story writers Writers of American Southern literature PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners Novelists from New York (state) United States Navy sailors Writers from North Carolina 20th-century American male writers 21st-century LGBT people Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters