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Kathryn Tucker Windham
Dallas County
Literature
Kathryn Tucker Windham’s first job as a writer was at age twelve
when she wrote movie reviews for the Thomasville News. After finishing college
as an English Major, Kathryn began a career in journalism that spanned forty
years.She believed that all writers are basically self-taught, but did credit
her college English teacher, Dr. Rhoda Coleman Ellison, with greatly
influencing her abilities as a writer.Dr. Ellison taught Kathryn that a writer
should always write on the subject of the world they know and care about.The
key to good writing is doing it right.
Kathryn used her work to remind the reader of his past and the
similarities between people of various ages and backgrounds.Written in a simple
and personal style, her literature is designed to relate one on one with the
reader, as if the writer and the reader were sitting next to each other sharing
experiences. Kathryn thought that good writing should offer hope and positive
encouragement while showing that every day is special enough to be recorded
forever on paper.
Kathryn’s books are also available at most bookstores.
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Ernest's Gift
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On the occasion of the centennial of the public library in historic Selma, Alabama, beloved storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham relates the true story of Ernest Dawson. When he was a boy in the 1930s, segregation laws had barred Dawson from using the Selma library. But his love of books and his eagerness to learn was strong, and he eventually became a teacher. Years later he bequeathed to the Selma library money for a new children’s wing so that other eager young readers of all races would...
Jeffrey's Favorite 13 Ghost Stories
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Jeffrey, the ghost that has haunted Kathryn Tucker Windham’s house for 40 years is back. This time, he helped Mrs. Windham choose 13 of the best stories from her acclaimed series of Southern ghost stories. This new volume, with an introduction by the author, is filled with cameos by historical places, collecting the best of the stories from Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia. Learn why a phantom witch relentlessly torments the Bell family and gasp as a farmer vanishes into thin air....
SHE "The Old Woman Who Took Over My Life"
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This slender book, the last of twenty-nine written by Kathryn Tucker Windham over her long and productive life, will be an exquisitely bittersweet read for many fans of the late storyteller and author from Selma, Alabama. Windham died shortly before the publication of the volume, but only over the last eighteen months of her life did she seem constrained by her advancing years. In She, which Windham was putting the finishing touches on when she died at age 93 in June 2011, the author describes...