Alabama Southern Community College

The Library at Alabama Southern Community College in Monroeville is the home of the Alabama Center for the Literary Arts and the Monroeville Writers Fountain. The Center features mixed media portraits of Truman Capote, Martin Luther King, Jr., Helen Keller, Booker T. Washington, and Harper Lee. In the slideshow below, you'll see that there is not a portrait of Harper Lee, but rather a symbolic representation of a mockingbird.

From the Center's website:
The internationally acclaimed Alabama artist Nall was commissioned by the Alabama Center for Literary Arts to create portraits of Alabama literary icons Truman Capote, Martin Luther King, Jr., Helen Keller, and Booker T. Washington for display in the Alabama Writers Hall of Honor. Nall is an American symbolist artist who further developed his passion for art through studies in Paris and numerous world travels. Nall served as an artist-in-residence at Troy State University.

Click here for the artist Nall's extremely interesting interactive website.

Also in the Center is the Alabama Collection of books, which of course includes a signed copy of TKAM, just sitting on the shelves like any other book. The Fountain of Literary Inspiration is also part of the Center. I threw in a quarter in hopes of some inspiration to finish my dissertation! Click here to read more about the fountain the Literary Courtyard.


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