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Award Winning Southern Writer  Sharyn McCrumb is an award-winning Southern writer, best known for her Appalachian "Ballad" novels, including the New York Times best sellers The Ballad of Frankie Silver and She Walks These Hills, and for St. Dale, winner of a Library of Virginia Award and featured at the National Festival of the Book. Her current novel, The Ballad of Tom Dooley, (Thomas Dunne, 2011), examines the true story behind the celebrated folk song made famous by the Kingston Trio. It is the story of a tragedy in the North Carolina mountains following the Civil War. Impoverished Confederate veteran Tom Dula (Dooley) was convicted of murdering his lover, Laura Foster. In May 1868, he was hanged for the crime. In 2008 the Library of Virginia named Sharyn McCrumb a Virginia Woman of History for Achievement in Literature. |
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If You Are Shopping... If you are Christmas shopping, the new essay collection Sharyn McCrumb's Appalachia makes a great stocking stuffer at $6. We also have a CD of Virginia musicians Jack Hinshelwood and Eddie Bond signing the original ballad of Tom Dooley as well as a reading by me of a scene from the novel. (I recorded my part of the CD at 2 a.m. in the basement, with my friend musician Rick Cunningham of Alabama doing the sound engineering, and Susan Richards holding Arthur the Maltipoo so that he wouldn't bark and make disruptive doggy noises on the tape.) We have a limited number of Nora Bonesteel Coffee Mugs commemerating the beloved Ballad Novel Character. Order now!Also, if you need a signed copy of The Ballad of Tom Dooley, or the backlist ballad novels, or CD's from "Songcatcher," "Ghost Riders," or the "real" Nora Bonesteel telling family ghost stories, etc. visit our Marketplace Page. You can have a book personalized by putting the instructions for personalization in the order form box for "special instructions." Coming in March 2012  A new edition of Ghost Riders, Sharyn McCrumb's award-winning novel about the Civil War in the Southern mountains will be published by John F. Blair Press of Winston-Salem.The book is narrated by two historical figures: NC Governor Zebulon Baird Vance, who was later the attorney who defended Tom Dooley, and Malinda Blalock, who dressed as a boy and followed her husband off to war. This new edition of Ghost Riders, in trade paperback, will feature a foreword by North Carolina Historian of the Year Michael C. Hardy, a map of the area, and a newly-discovered photograph of Keith Blalock. The Ballad of Tom Dooley: Release Updates
 McCrumb Releases Kindle-only Publication
 Buy your Kindle-edition of Sharyn McCrumb's Appalachia now. In Stores Now: The Ballad of Tom Dooley  Hang down your head, Tom Dooley. Last summer heralded Sharyn McCrumb's return to her critically-acclaimed Appalachian Ballad series. Now from the pen of the award-winning Appalachian writer comes the true story behind the most famous mountain ballad of all: the legend of Tom DooleyThe folk song, made famous by the Kingston Trio, tells the story of a tragedy in the North Carolina mountains in the aftermath of the Civil War. Laura Foster, a simple country girl, was murdered and buried in a shallow grave on a mountain side, and her lover Tom Dula was hanged for the crime. The sensational elements in the case attracted national attention: a man and his beautiful married lover accused of murdering the other woman; the former governor of North Carolina spearheading the defense; and a noble gesture from the prisoner on the eve of his execution, saving the woman he really loved.  In The Ballad of Tom Dooley, what began as a fictional re-telling of the historical account became an astonishing revelation of the real motives and the real culprit in the murder of Laura Foster. With the help of Wilkes County historians, lawyers, and researchers, Sharyn McCrumb visited the actual sites, studied the legal evidence, and uncovered a missing piece of the story that will shock those who think they already know what happened. What seemed at first to be a sordid tale of adultery and betrayal was transformed by the new discoveries into an Appalachian Wuthering Heights.The Ballad of Tom Dooley brings to life the star-crossed lovers of this mountain tragedy with the understanding and compassion that Sharyn McCrumb brings to her compelling tales of Appalachia. The new information unearthed by her research may also bring belated justice to an innocent man. The Ballad of Tom Dooley is available NOW in audiobook and eBook formats. Check out the Marketplace page. |
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McCrumb Receives Perry F. Kendig Award Sharyn McCrumb received the Perry F. Kendig Award for Achievement in Literary Arts, given by the Arts Council of the Blue Ridge on Wednesday, May 11, in a program at the Taubman Art Museum in Roanoke, Virginia.  |
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In Stores Now! The Devil Amongst The Lawyers  When a pretty young schoolteacher is charged with murder in 1930's Appalachia, the national press uses it as an excuse to sell newspapers-- and to demonize the region, raising issues that go far beyond the fate of one defendant. |
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