“D” is for Durban, Pam Rosa (b. 1947)

“D” is for Durban, Pam Rosa (b. 1947). Author. A native of Aiken, Durban attended the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. In 2001 she became Doris Betts Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her short stories as well as her novels Durban’s South Carolina roots are evident. The Laughing Place, her first novel, is a major statement on the southern obsession with the past. So Far Back is a novel about the last descendant of an old Charleston family who discovers how her life is entangled in the family history. That novel won the Lillian Smith Award for Fiction. In her latest novel, The Tree of Forgetfulness, Pam Rosa Durban continued her exploration of southern history and memory.