Provincials

Eli N. Evans was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina, and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Yale Law School. He is author of Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate and The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner. He is president emeritus of the Charles H. Revson Foundation and lives in New York City.

"[Evans] endows his narrative with a human texture which elevates it to literature. The Provincials is a multilayered book of great warmth and feeling.... It has become an enduring classic." - Willie Morris, from the Foreword; "The Provincials is not only first rate American history, it's also a first rate coming-of-age memoir. Eli Evans knows everything there is to know about growing up southern and Jewish at the same time." - Alfred Uhry, Pultizer Prize-winning author of Driving Miss Daisy; "Such a fine and valuable book - thoughtful, informative, revealing - a reminiscence and a history that works on both counts." - Jonathan Yardley, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist"