Best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings may not be the first author you think of when celebrating World Bee Day in Asheville, NC. But through a series of interesting connections, we think she’s a great fit. We’d even go so far as to say she’s the bee’s knees! Like…
They say most people live one life, but authors live as many as they can invent. Local historian Bruce Johnson has pared back the lives (imagined and of legend) of three infamous authors of Asheville’s Gilded Age in his new book, Tom, Scott, and Zelda: Following In Their Footsteps. What he has revealed are the…
Grief is a powerful force. The loss of a loved one can tear families apart … or in some cases, it can bring unexpected people together for life. Heather Bell Adams’ 2017 debut novel, Maranatha Road, dives deeply into the inextricable pairing of loss and love. When Sadie Caswell’s son dies shortly before his wedding,…