Daphne Butler’s big, warm laugh is sweeter than a summertime peach. It’s warmer than a steaming mug of hot chocolate on a snowy day. It’s more colorful than the changing leaves in fall, and more cheerful than the first daffodils of spring. That…
Todd Jones is a man of faith and a man of action. This weekend he was also a man about town, accompanying lovely wife Connie to the Nashville Public Library’s Literary Award Gala and Patrons Party. The back-to-back evenings honoring…
So said Perry Wallace on March 8th, 1970, to young Tennessean reporter Frank Sutherland the day after Wallace played his last basketball game at Vanderbilt. That interview made front page news the day the story ran: Wallace had been a…
On a rainy Saturday, Gary Shockley likes to read. He also likes to get in a run and work in the yard (“there’s always something”). On a sunny Saturday, the same – only drier. What is it about the yard…
Keith Meacham, co-chair of this year’s Literary Award Gala, read Presumed Innocent on a beach trip in 1988. It was her first Scott Turow novel, and she was in for a surprise. “It must have just come out in paperback around then,…