Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories

[2] The story "The Ugliest Pilgrim" was adapted into the short film “Violet,” which won Best Live Action Short at the 54th Academy Awards.

The title story "Beasts of the Southern Wild" was originally published in The Carolina Quarterly in 1973.

[4] The title derives from the William Blake poem "The Little Black Boy."

It is about an unhappily married woman named Carol who fantasizes she has been chosen as a concubine by Sam Porter, the provost of New African University.

This article about a collection of short stories published in the 1970s is a stub.