Don Noble

Don Noble is an Alabama writer and literary critic. He is host of the long-running Alabama Public Television author interview program Bookmark, the book reviewer for Alabama Public Radio, and a professor emeritus of English at the University of Alabama.

Education and career Noble earned bachelor’s and master’s in English at University at Albany, SUNY. He then earned a doctorate in Southern literature at the UNC Chapel Hill. He relocated to Tuscaloosa in 1969 and taught American literature at the University of Alabama until 2001.

In addition to his teaching career, Noble is the author of numerous works of literary criticism, including books about Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, John Steinbeck, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. He has also edited anthologies of fiction, including one with his wife Jennifer Horne, a past Poet Laureate of Alabama. In 2023, he began a podcast titled "Alabama Aloud" that presents humorous short fiction by writers from the state.

Noble has served on the boards of the Alabama Humanities Alliance, the Alabama Writers' Forum, and the Alabama School for the Fine Arts.

Awards His awards include a regional Emmy for Achievement in Screenwriting with Brent Davis for a documentary on Alabama writer William Bradford Huie. Noble was the recipient of the 2000 Eugene Current-Garcia Award, the 2013 Wayne Greenhaw Service Award from the Alabama Humanities Alliance, and the 2017 Governor’s Arts Award given by the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

Personal life Horne is married to poet and writer Jennifer Horne, a former Poet Laureate of Alabama. They live in Cottondale, Alabama.

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