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Family of Earth A Southern Mountain Childhood — Wilma Dykeman

Family of Earth A Southern Mountain Childhood

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Literary Figures • State & Local

Senator James Eastland Mississippi’s Jim Crow Democrat — Maarten Zwiers

Senator James Eastland Mississippi’s Jim Crow Democrat

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Literary Figures • State & Local

Where’s the Moon? A Memoir of the Space Coast and the Florida Dream — Ann McCutchan

Where’s the Moon? A Memoir of the Space Coast and the Florida Dream

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Literary Figures • State & Local

Living in Mississippi The Life and Times of Evans Harrington — Robert W. Hamblin

Living in Mississippi The Life and Times of Evans Harrington

Robert W. Hamblin

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Literary Figures • State & Local

Mile Marker Zero The Moveable Feast of Key West — William McKeen

Mile Marker Zero The Moveable Feast of Key West

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Literary Figures • State & Local

My Bondage and My Freedom — Frederick Douglass

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Literary Figures • State & Local

Every Day by the Sun A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi — Dean Faulkner Wells

Every Day by the Sun A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi

Dean Faulkner Wells

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Literary Figures • State & Local

Cherie Quarters The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines — Ruth Laney

Cherie Quarters The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Literary Figures • State & Local

Edgar Allan Poe’s Richmond The Raven in the River City — Christopher P. Semtner

Edgar Allan Poe’s Richmond The Raven in the River City

Christopher P. Semtner

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Literary Figures • State & Local

Shelby Foote A Writer’s Life — C. Stuart Chapman

Shelby Foote A Writer’s Life

C. Stuart Chapman

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Literary Figures • State & Local

Furious Hours Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee — Casey Cep

Furious Hours Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Literary Figures • State & Local

Atticus Finch The Biography — Joseph Crespino

Atticus Finch The Biography

Joseph Crespino

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Literary Figures • State & Local

Dimestore A Writer’s Life — Lee Smith

Dimestore A Writer’s Life

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Literary Figures • State & Local

The Fish That Ate the Whale The Life and Times of America’s Banana King — Rich Cohen

The Fish That Ate the Whale The Life and Times of America’s Banana King

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local • United States

Alabama Short Stories Volume 1 — Shawn Wright

Alabama Short Stories Volume 1

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local • United States

While the World Watched A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement — Carolyn Maull McKinstry

While the World Watched A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement

Carolyn Maull McKinstry

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local • United States

Holt and the Teddy Bear — Jim McCafferty

Holt and the Teddy Bear

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local • United States

Daughter of the White River Depression-era Treachery and Vengeance in the Arkansas Delta — Denise White Parkinson

Daughter of the White River Depression-era Treachery and Vengeance in the Arkansas Delta

Denise White Parkinson

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local • United States

Our Portion of Hell Fayette County, Tennessee: an Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights — Robert Hamburger

Our Portion of Hell Fayette County, Tennessee: an Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights

Robert Hamburger

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local • United States

Lessons from the Big House One Family’s Passage Through the History of the South — Frye Gaillard

Lessons from the Big House One Family’s Passage Through the History of the South

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local • United States

The Prince of Frogtown — Rick Bragg

The Prince of Frogtown

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local • United States

Daniel Smith Donelson Soldier, Politician, Tennessean — Doug Spence

Daniel Smith Donelson Soldier, Politician, Tennessean

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local • United States

The Mississippi Governor’s Mansion Memories of the People’s Home — Phil Bryant

The Mississippi Governor’s Mansion Memories of the People’s Home

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local • United States

Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana — Keagan LeJeune

Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • State & Local • United States

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), Literary Figures, State & Local — the same threads that run through Old Burnside by Harriette Simpson Arnow. Among the authors featured: Wilma Dykeman, Maarten Zwiers, Ann McCutchan, Robert W. Hamblin, and others.

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