Thursday, January 04, 2007

The Last Mountain

Wilma Dykeman
(1920-2006)

This Southern author has climbed her last mountain. She died after complications from hip replacement surgery this December. Mrs. Dykeman Stokely wrote one of my all time favorite books, The Tall Woman. A patron once told me she considered it a compliment when people referred to her as tall after reading this book.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like a good book !

maggie moran said...

Paul, it's a GREAT book. Here's a exert... http://cgee.hamline.edu/rivers/Resources/Voices/dykeman2.htm

I'm a little bias being a Tennessee girl. ;)