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Sharyn McCrumb

Sharyn McCrumb is the author of The Ballad of Frankie Silver, The Rosewood Casket, She Walks These Hills, The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, and If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O, as well as many other acclaimed novels. Her books have been named Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, and she has been honored for Outstanding Contribution to Appalachian Literature. She has won an award for the Best Appalachian Novel, the Chaffin Award for Achievement in Southern Literature, the Plattner Award for Best Appalachian Short Story, and the Appalachian Writer of the Year Award. She lives and writes in the Virginia Blue Ridge, less than a hundred miles from where her family settled in 1790 in the Smoky Mountains that divide North Carolina and Tennessee.