Fleming Community Library

"The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden the story of her own life"--

Shares the author's assessment of how a seductive cowboy challenged her feminist beliefs, describing how as an embittered, middle-aged divorcée she began to question her staunch beliefs before being swept off her feet by a very masculine lover.

"In Rock Hill, South Carolina, in 1949, Judy Kurtz and Mattie Culp shared a bed, but when Judy needed stitches after a playground accident, the white child and Black woman were sent to separate, segregated, hospital waiting rooms. In 1956, Judy and Mattie discovered Elvis together--a white man dancing Black on the Ed Sullivan Show--but only Judy would attend his live concert. After Mattie's daughter, Minnie, rode in the local Christmas parade as her...

After eight commanding works of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize winner now turns to memoir in a hilarious, moving, and always surprising account of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to escape.

Profiles the lives and works of women mystery authors, providing information on their writings, anecdotes, critical opinions, and some of the women's own comments.

Revised versions of 3 lectures delivered at Harvard University in Apr. 1983.

In her memoir, Fowler details the beauty and peace she found on Alligator Point after years of heartbreak and loss, and the devastation and upheaval that followed the oil spill. It is, at its heart, a love song to the natural world and a cry of anger and grief at its ruin for the sake of corporate profits.

This new biography of the brilliant Southern author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is based on newly available letters and journals and traces how she captured the heart and longing of the outcast.

Erskine Caldwell: The Journey from Tobacco Road presents the fascinating life and times of a prolific and influential - yet nearly forgotten - figure in American literature. In the 1930s and 40s, Erskine Caldwell's impassioned work dealing with the Southern poor - most notably, the novels Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre - earned him wide critical acclaim. Although many Southerners reviled him for his brutal expose's of their region, literary scholars...