Don Noble
Don Noble is an Alabama writer and literary critic. He is host of the long-running Alabama Public Television author interview program Bookmark, the book reviewer for Alabama Public Radio, and a professor emeritus of English at the University of Alabama.
Education and career
Noble earned bachelor’s and master’s in English at University at Albany, SUNY. He then earned a doctorate in Southern literature at the University of [North Carolina at Chapel Hill|UNC Chapel Hill]. He relocated to Tuscaloosa in 1969 and taught American literature at the University of Alabama until 2001.In addition to his teaching career, Noble is the author of numerous works of literary criticism, including books about Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, John Steinbeck, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. He has also edited anthologies of fiction, including one with his wife Jennifer Horne, a past Poet Laureate of Alabama. In 2023, he began a podcast titled "Alabama Aloud" that presents humorous short fiction by writers from the state.
Noble has served on the boards of the Alabama Humanities Alliance, the Alabama Writers' Forum, and the Alabama School for the Fine Arts.