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A Separate Country - In Stores Now!

A Separate Country will be released September 23Set in New Orleans in the years after the Civil War, A SEPARATE COUNTRY is a novel based on the incredible life of John Bell Hood, arguably one of the  most controversial generals of the Confederate Army--and one of its most tragic figures.  Robert E. Lee promoted him to major general after the Battle of Antietam.  But the Civil War would mark him forever. At Gettysburg, he lost the use of his left arm. At the Battle of Chickamauga, his right leg was amputated. Starting fresh after the war, he married Anna Marie Hennen and fathered 11 children with her, including three sets of twins.  But fate had other plans. Crippled by his war wounds and defeat, ravaged by financial misfortune, Hood had one last foe to battle: Yellow Fever.

A SEPARATE COUNTRY is the heartrending story of a decent and good man who struggled with his inability to admit his failures--and the story of those who taught him to love, and to be loved, and transformed him.

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THE WIDOW OF THE SOUTH

In an Author's Note at the end of his book The Widow of the South, Robert Hicks tells us that "when Oscar Wilde made his infamous tour of America in 1882, he told his hosts that his itinerary should include a visit to 'sunny Tennessee to meet the Widow McGavock, the high priestess of the temple of dead boys.'" Carrie McGavock, The Widow of the South, did indeed take it upon herself to grieve the loss of so many young men in the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, which took place on November 30, 1864. Nine thousand men lost their lives that day. She and her husband John eventually re-buried on their own land 1,481 Confederate soldiers killed at Franklin, when the family that owned the land on which the original shallow graves had been dug decided to plow it under and put it into cultivation.

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Sunday
Aug282011

Georgia Center for the Book

Nell Dickerson & Robert Hicks

Cobb County Public Library - Marietta

September 29th , 7:00 P.M.

Hey folks, join photographer/architect/ friend Nell Dickerson & me to talk about ”The Role of Women in the Historic South,” or whatever else I decide to talk about as part of the 75th anniversary observance of the publication of ”Gone With the Wind.” Dickerson, a native of Mississippi. is the creator of the recently published book ”Gone: A Photographic Plea for Preservation,” which presents an eloquent case for saving some of the most important but decaying historic structures around the South. Her book is truly a must have & oh so beautiful.

I wrote the Foreword for that book.  The program is free and will take place at the Cobb County Central Library. 266 Roswell Street in Marietta.

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