NYT bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb to speak Tuesday
September 18, 2017
New York Times bestselling Southern author Sharyn McCrumb will speak at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Central United Methodist Church as part of the Lifelong Learning at Wofford College program.
The program is free to Lifelong Learning members and $5 for guests. Register by calling 597-4415 or online at www.wofford.edu/lifelonglearning.
McCrumb is best known for her Appalachian “Ballad” novels, set in the North Carolina/Tennessee mountains, including New York Times bestsellers “The Ballad of Tom Dooley,” “She Walks These Hills” and “The Rosewood Casket.” This month, Simon & Schuster will publish her latest novel, “The Unquiet Grave,” a well-researched history of West Virginia’s Greenbrier Ghost.
Her novel “Prayers the Devil Answers,” published by Atria (Simon & Schuster) in 2016 as a nominee for the Library of Virginia Book of the Year and the Southern Independent Booksellers (SEBA) Book Award. “King’s Mountain” (2013, St. Martin’s Press), the story of the 1780 Revolutionary War battle and the Overmountain Men, received a DAR Award from the Edward Buncombe Chapter (NC), and in June 2015 the Patricia Winn Award for Southern Fiction from the Montgomery County Arts and Heritage Council of Clarksville, Tenn. “King’s Mountain” is taught in schools and featured at a number of historical museums.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an M.A. from Virginia Tech, McCrumb lives and writes in the Virginia Blue Ridge.
Wofford College, established in 1854, is a four-year, residential liberal arts college located in Spartanburg, S.C. It offers 25 major fields of study to a student body of 1,650 undergraduates. Nationally known for the strength of its academic program, outstanding faculty, study abroad participation and successful graduates, Wofford is home to one of the nation’s 283 Phi Beta Kappa chapters. The college community enjoys Greek Life as well as 19 NCAA Division I athletics teams.
