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Margaret Eby
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I'm a critic and journalist who lives in Brooklyn, but I left my heart in the place I grew up: Down South in Birmingham, Alabama.
In 2006, my parents moved from Birmingham to Jackson, Mississippi, four hours further south and west. When I visited them, I always gravitated towards the bookstore, of course, and soon developed a fascination with Jackson's patron literary saint, Eudora Welty. I had read her books before, but being in the place that she wrote about and lived felt different to me. There was a connection between her home and her writing that was almost tangible in Jackson, particularly...
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Kathleen Smith
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Author Kathleen Smith writes about her life. Growing up in Brooklyn, NY. She shares what it was like for her growing up in an Irish and Italian home with a little bit of English thrown in there. She shares not only about her childhood, but also about getting married, moving to Upstate NY, having a family and loosing her mom to cancer.She also shares in her books what it was like for her to have three miscarriages. She shares her emotional struggles as well as her physical pain. She shares how she got through it all with the help of her husband and God.
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