Clifton Taulbert (1945– )
by Stephen Enzweiler
A native of Glen Allan, Miss., Clifton Taulbert is best known for his non-fiction books Once Upon A Time When I Was Colored and Eight Habits of the Heart: Embracing the Values that Build Strong Communities. He received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his book The Last Train North (1992), was awarded the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction, and was named TIME Magazine’s Outstanding Black Entrepreneur. He’s a graduate of Greenville’s O’Bannon High School and earned his bachelor’s degree from Oral Roberts University; he later earned a graduate degree from Southern Methodist University. He also authored a series of children’s books with a character named “Little Cliff,” and is recognized as one of Mississippi’s great contemporary black American authors.
Stephen Enzweiler is Contributing Editor to Y’all Magazine as well as a short story fiction author. Write to him at steve@yall.com. Learn more about his writings at www.StephenEnzweiler.com
Other Articles by Stephen Enzweiler:
The Legacy of Mississippi Writers
William Faulkner: The Agony and the Sweat
A Streetcar Named Tennessee
Bard of the American Illiad
The Existential Walker Percy
Eudora Welty
Richard Wright
Willie Morris
Ellen Gilchrist
Oxford Wedding
Stepping Off the Trace: Florence and the Shoals
Corinth: Still A Crossroads Destination
Mississippi Rising













