May 6, 2019
by jenniferpuryear
Book Title: Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
My friend Elizabeth Hawkins stops in at Bacon today to talk about a book she calls a “jaw-dropping work of nonfiction.” The author will speak in Nashville tomorrow, May 7th – please, read on!
July 16, 2015
by jenniferpuryear
Book Title: Being Mortal
It did take Eleanor Brakefield Wells some time to come back home: 34 years, to be precise. She was born in Nashville at Baptist Hospital when her father, Dr. James Brakefield, was a medical intern there. She attended Woodmont Elementary, West End Junior High, and St. Bernard Academy, leaving for Samford University in 1975 after graduation. It would be 2009 before she and her husband …