I've been writing fiction since I was twelve, but for forty years marriage, child-rearing, and the teaching of graduate and undergraduate American literature classes (Southern) diverted me from the Path. My writing includes stories about the Navy (WW2), the Old Coast Guard, the South Pacific, Ozarks hillbillies, trailerhouse people, and academia (college life), and national politics. The movie rights to my Madam President were bought by a Hollywood entertainment company, and this same firm commissioned me to write the screen play to it. My last book was Hookei Miller and the Last Days of the O more...
