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Sharyn McCrumb -
Award Winning Southern Writer
Sharyn McCrumb is an award-winning Southern writer, best known for her Appalachian "Ballad" novels, including the New York Times best sellers The Ballad of Tom Dooley, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, and Ghost Riders. Her Revolutionary War novel, King's Mountain was published in September 2013 by St. Martin's Press.
A new ballad novel, Prayers the Devil Answers was published in May by Atria, a division of Simon & Schuster.
Sharyn McCrumb, named a Virginia Woman of History by the Library of Virginia., was awarded the Mary Hobson Prize for Arts & Letters in 2014.
In addition to presenting programs at universities, libraries, and other organizations throughout the US, Sharyn McCrumb has taught a writers workshop in Paris, and served as writer-in-residence at King University in Tennessee, and at the Chautauqua Institute in western New York.
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Readers Guide Discussion Questions for
Prayers the Devil Answers
Readers Guide Discussion Questions Prayers the Devil Answers are now available on my Readers Group page.
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New Sharyn McCrumb Novel Next Spring!
"The Unquiet Grave," an account of the Greenbrier Ghost will be published in early 2017 by Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.
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  Fall Programs
Sharyn will attend the:
· Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 14-16
· Kentucky Book Fair in Frankfort, KY on Sunday, Nov. 5
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Now on Kindle
She Walks These Hills, Sharyn McCrumb's New York Times best-selling novel in which an escaped prisoner and a frontier woman's ghost journey through the Appalachians, trying to find home.
To buy the eBook, click here: She Walks These Hills on Kindle ~ This new edition contains an author's introduction, readers group discussion questions and an essay about the themes and origins of the novel.
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King's Mountain Wins the Patricia Winn Award for Southern Fiction
Sharyn McCrumb's novel chronicling the events of the 1780 Battle of King's Mountain was recently given the Patricia Winn Award for Southern Fiction, presented by the Clarksville Writers Conference, Clarksville, Tennessee.
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Kindle and Nook Editions of The Songcatcher
Sharyn McCrumb's best-selling novel The Songcatcher, the story of Scotsman Malcolm McCourry's journey to the Appalachian frontier and the song that passes through the generations of his family, is now available as an eBook.
Available for Kindle now on Amazon.com
Available for Nook now on BarnesAndNoble.com
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The Rosewood Casket - New Edition
 The Rosewood Casket is now available in a new edition from St. Martin's Press. This requiem for the mountain land lost to development and environmental problems is also a moving account of four grown sons, who have returned to the family farm to build a coffin for their dying father.
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King's Mountain
Sharyn McCrumb's next Ballad novel, King's Mountain, was published in September 2013 by St. Martins Press. The novel tells the story of the Overmountain Men, a group of unpaid volunteers from the southern Appalachians, who fought the Revolutionary War battle at King's Mountain, just west of Charlotte NC.
George Washington's Continental Army was losing the war in the north, and the victory of the Overmountain Men renewed the colonist's optimism for the cause. Thomas Jefferson called it the turning point of the war.
The battle of King's Mountain is a Who's Who of the colonial frontier. The Overmountain Men included:
John Sevier, first governor of Tennessee; Isaac Shelby, first governor of Kentucky; William Campbell, brother-in-law of Virginia governor Patrick Henry; John Crockett, father of frontiersman Davy Crockett; David Vance, grandfather of NC's Civil War governor Zebulon B. Vance; and Jonathan Tipton, the 7-times great-grandfather of author Sharyn McCrumb.
More on King's Mountain • Buy your signed copy here
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The Ballad of Frankie Silver
The Ballad of Frankie Silver is now available in a new edition by St. Martins Press. The novel, a New York Times best-seller, tells the moving story of the 18-year old mountain girl who became the first woman hanged for murder in the state of North Carolina (1833.)
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Kindle Edition of Ghost Riders
Ghost Riders is now available in electronic format. This novel, winner of the Audie Award for Best Recorded Novel (Brilliance Audio) and the Wilma Dykeman Award from the East Tennessee Historical Society is now available in a new trade paperback edition from Blair Press and in electronic format on Nook & Kindle.
New Edition of Ghost Riders
 A new edition of Ghost Riders, Sharyn McCrumb's award-winning novel about the Civil War in the Southern mountains has been published by John F. Blair Press of Winston-Salem.
The new edition features a foreword by Civil War historian Michael C. Hardy, North Carolina's Historian of the Year, an area map, and new photos of the historical figures featured in the novel. Sharyn McCrumb and Michael Hardy will be doing programs this spring. Ghost Riders is available in bookstores and on e-books.
For a Readers Guide to the Novel, see the Ghost Riders page.
You can buy a signed copy right here.
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We invite you to visit our online shop for your copies of Sharyn's novels, eBooks, audio books, CDs of original and historic ballads and readings by the author, the tote bag, posters and coffee mug. You can shop confidently and securely with your Visa or MasterCard.
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