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Common Yellowthroat

…me from Mount Prospect to Evanston and dropped me and my battered footlocker off at Northwestern’s Willard Hall. I didn’t think about birds again for years and years. Lyda Phillips

Guided by a Star

…stark, terrifying story of perilous love and the search for peace is especially illuminating. Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew up in Memphis and has earned degrees from…

A Game of Elements

…the pilot. Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew up in Memphis and has earned degrees from Northwestern, Columbia, and Vanderbilt universities. The author of two young-adult novels, she…

Down Low in the Bluff City

…represented here is evident on every page of Memphis Noir, a testament to the cultural richness of the Bluff City. Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew up in…

Clear Cut

…the way. It also marks the arrival of a novelist with both artistic daring and the ability to tell a great story. Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew…

Under Fire

…a week. In a way, writing is writing for me. The form finds itself from the material. Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew up in Memphis and has…

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