Frye Gaillard adds Jefferson Cup Honor Book for Go South to Freedom, film documentary about Journey to the Wilderness to list of credits
Award-winning author Frye Gaillard is enjoying a banner year: his book Go South to Freedom has just been named a Jefferson Cup Honor Book for young adult readers by the Virginia Library Association. The Jefferson Cup honors a distinguished biography, work of historical fiction or American history book for young people. Presented since 1983, the […]
Journey to the Wilderness by Frye Gaillard a beautiful “meditation” on how Civil War is remembered
Journey to the Wilderness: War, Memory, and a Southern Family’s Civil War Letters, by award-winning author Frye Gaillard and newly published by NewSouth Books, has garnered strong early reviews. Readers praise the elegance of Gaillard’s prose and the insight of his commentary on a very personal topic: his ancestors’ Civil War experiences and his own changing view of the war from his typical Southern upbringing through his adult reflections on its effects and meaning …
Skip Tucker talks Pale Blue Light with Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness
Over author Skip Tucker’s 1,500-mile book tour through Virginia, Atlanta, and New Orleans, he met a lot of readers interested in his unique Civil War spy thriller Pale Blue Light. Tucker spoke with Publishers Weekly and Shelf Awareness about his trip …
Author Skip Tucker to make 1,500-mile road trip to promote paper edition of Civil War novel Pale Blue Light
Alabama author Skip Tucker leaves shortly on a 1,500-mile drive to promote the national paperback release of his historical adventure novel, Pale Blue Light, at the annual re-enactment of the Civil War’s Battle of Chancellorsville, Va., May 3-5. The trip is timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the death of Stonewall Jackson and the historic battle. Some 30,000 people are expected to attend the commemorative events. Tucker will hold an 11 am news conference on May 4 at the Spotsylvania County Museum at the Chancellorsville Battlefield to announce the book release …