Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Alex Haley (1921-1992)

…of fictionalizing several aspects of Malcolm’s life. After the success of Malcolm X, Haley stumbled across the names of his maternal great-grandparents while going through the National Archives’ post-Civil War…

Timeless

In Myra McEntire’s YA thriller, Hourglass, two young sweethearts travel into the past to prevent a murder

…for a living. The experience of losing her parents and her unusual visions cause her to question her own sanity. But everything changes when she meets Michael. A sexy and…

Now in Print

D.B. Henson’s DIY publication yielded 100,000 ebook sales—and a traditional publishing contract

D.B. Henson spent ten years selling houses and another seven working for a company that builds them, but her secret dream had always been to write a novel. When an…

Out of the Box

Borders and Davis-Kidd may be gone, but that doesn’t mean Nashville can’t support a bookstore

…in all subjects ever studied in human history. Nashville’s literati—Robert Penn Warren and Allen Tate and James Dickey, just for starters—shopped there, but these tiny, dusty, dear places that made…

The Novelist and the Nun

In an essay for Granta, Ann Patchett considers her long friendship with Sister Nena

…Mercy. (The school now ends after 8th grade, but during Patchett’s youth, the St. Bernard campus housed an all-girls high school, as well). One of the nuns there is the…

Divining Rod

“Potent…Confident…Written in lucid and unself-conscious prose.” —The Wall Street Journal

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