Nellie Gordon
US Civil War diarist
US Civil War diarist
Olive Ann Burns was a professional writer, journalist, and columnist for most of her life.
American fiction writer
Award-winning, No. 1 New York Times best-selling author
American librarian; during WWII, she was asked by the federal government to install war and defense information centers in 4,000 libraries across the country.
Mattie Lou O’Kelley began to paint in 1962, at the age of fifty-four. Memory painters like O’Kelley were known for depicting scenes from their earlier lives—usually rural themes reflecting simpler times.
American local historian
Marian McCamy Sims emerged as a novelist and short-story writer in the 1930s and 1940s
20th century American poet whose poems appeared in numerous periodicals, as well as a researcher for several years and, later, editor for Reader’s Digest.
Two-time winner of the Townsend Prize for Fiction whose stories appear in numerous anthologies and textbooks