Download or read book Laughing Stock written by Thomas S. Stribling and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the intense blossoming of American literary talent between the World Wars, T.S. Stribling took his place with Faulkner, Hemingway, Dos Passos, and other members of his generation with the Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for his bestselling novel The Store. In Laughing Stock, Stribling’s autobiography, the gifted writer reflects with humor, irony, and passion on his trajectory from a remote southern town to the literary heights of Paris and New York.