Joe Edd Morris

Josie

A Memoir

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Produktbeschreibung

Have you ever met a woman- -Who was Annie Oakley, Scarlet O'Hara, and Eleanor Roosevelt all rolled into one? -Who, on a Sunday morning, faced down desperadoes on a saloon porch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming? -Who could out-barter, out-haggle, and out-dicker a conman? -Who was an entrepreneurial, self-taught interior designer and gemologist and transformed that husband's watch repair shop into a dazzling emporium of jewels, fine China and crystal ... and flowers ... and hats ... and pianos ... and antiques? -Who staged a one-woman campaign to bring racial justice and equal opportunity to Mississippi in the '50's and 60's? -Who was a Renaissance woman-artist, musician, singer, dancer? Let me introduce to you my mother, Josie Morris Ferguson

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liberation's Publishing LLC
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9781951300753
• ISBN-10: 1951300750
• Artikelnr.: 63247666

Autorenporträt

Joe Edd Morris is the author of Land Where My Fathers Died, The Prison (both awarded Best Fiction by the Mississippi Library Association), Torched:Summer of '64 (Eric Hoffer Grand Prize, Montaigne Medal and Maxie Awards finalist) and non-fiction works including Ten Things I Wish Jesus Hadn't Said.Joe Edd is a psychologist and retired United Methodist minister. He and his wife, Sandi, live in Tupelo, MS where he has a private practice in psychology. He enjoys traveling, gardening, playing the piano and writing.