Tucker Carrington

Biography

Tucker Carrington, a native of Richmond, received his B.A. degree in English from the University of Virginia and an M.F.A. degree in fiction from Hollins College. After teaching at a prep school in Chattanooga, he received his J.D. degree from the University of Tennessee. He is the founding director of the Mississippi Innocence Project (MIP) and teaches at the University of Mississippi law school.

See Work

ESSAYS / Winter 1996

The Grammar of Hard Facts: Joseph Mitchell’s Up In the Old Hotel

By Tucker Carrington
CRITICISM / Autumn 1997

A Kind of Cracker Camelot

By Tucker Carrington

In her highly acclaimed first book, Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene focused on a little known patch of the large and complex quilt that is the Southern civil rights movement. She peopled it with characters who were both courageous...

CRITICISM / Spring 1994

“A Deeper Place in Themselves”

By Tucker Carrington