Wednesday, November 8, 2000
Wednesday, November 8, 2000 |
| Esteemed
southern writers grace Fayette Book Shop this weekend By MICHAEL
BOYLAN
The Fayette Book Shop will have two acclaimed Southern wirters signing their works this weekend. Terry Kay and Margaret Anne Barnes are both authors with several award-winning works under their belts, and both reflect the Southern life-style. Kay will appear Saturday and will sign his new book, "Taking Lottie Home." The book focuses on two professional baseball players who are cut from their team and take a runaway, Lottie, with them as they leave Augusta. Lottie marries one of the players and has a child with him. After her husband dies, Lottie goes to the other player's home before he is to be married. Kay has lived in and around Atlanta for his entire life. He was graduated from West Georgia College and LaGrange College and was a sports writer for the Atlanta Journal for eight years. He has been a full-time fiction writer since 1989 and has written 10 books, as well as an epsiode of "In the Heat of the Night." He lives in Athens, Ga. Barnes will appear at Fayette Book Shop Sunday. Her book, "A Buzzard is My Best Friend - A Memoir" is being re-released. The tale is an often hysterical account of a family's attempt to manage a farm in Virginia. The family is trying to get back to "the simple things" and finds that things are rarely so simple. Barnes' novel is based on her own family's experience. Barnes has written three books and has also been published in the Atlanta Journal/Constitution. Her first book, "Murder in Coweta County," was serialized in the Atlanta Constitution in 1976 and in the Atlanta Journal in 1983. Jim Minter, former editor of the papers, called it "absolutely the most successful thing we have ever run." "Buzzard" was her second book and her most recent book was "The Tragedy and Triumph of Phenix City, Alabama." Kay will sign "Taking Lottie Home" at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10, while Barnes will sign "A Buzzard is My Best Friend" Saturday, Nov. 11 from 1-3 p.m. For information call the Fayette Book Shop at 770-461-5907. |
