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Lyle Saxon (1891-1946) was
known in his day as "Mr. New Orleans." Saxon lived the life of
the Southern gentleman, championed the romance and tradition of old New
Orleans and wrote history and biography as well as fiction. As director
of the Louisiana Federal Writer's project of the Works progress
Administration, Saxon contributed to and compiled
Gumbo Ya-Ya, a
collection of Louisiana folktales, and valuable and enduring guides to
new Orleans and to the state. other Saxon titles include Father
Mississippi (1927),
Fabulous New Orleans (1928),
Old Louisiana (1929), Lafitte
the Pirate (1930), and the novel
Children of Strangers (1937). Robert Tallant collaborated with Saxon and
other FWP researchers on Gumbo Ya-Ya. Saxon also worked with
Marcus B. Christian and the Dillard Project to develop a history of
blacks in Louisiana. Christian ennobled view of blacks however differed
from Saxon's more traditional view of the Negro in the South |
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