Sharyn McCrumb Biography

Sharyn McCrumb is an award-winning Southern writer best known for her Appalachian Ballad novels set in the North Carolina/Tennessee mountains including the New York Times Best Sellers: The Ballad of Tom Dooley She Walks These Hills and The Rosewood Casket. Her new novel King's Mountain the story of the 1780 Revolutionary War battle and the Overmountain Men was published in September 2013 by St. Martins Press NY.
Her books are frequently used in One Community/One Book programs most recently The Ballad of Frankie Silver by the town of Gallatin TN and Volunteer State College and The Devil Amongst the Lawyers in Winchester VA.
In April 2014 Sharyn McCrumb was awarded the Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Southern Literature by North Carolina's Chowan University. Named a Virginia Woman of History in 2008 for Achievement in Literature she was a guest author at the National Festival of the Book in Washington D.C. sponsored by the White House in 2006.
Sharyn McCrumb's other best-selling novels include The Ballad of Frankie Silver the story of the first woman hanged for murder in the state of North Carolina Ghost Riders an account of the Civil War in the mountains of western North Carolina which won the Wilma Dykeman Award for Literature given by the East Tennessee Historical Society and the Audie Award for Best Recorded Book was published in a new edition in March 2012 by J.F. Blair Press. A theatrical version of Ghost Riders was staged in June 2014 at the Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville NC.

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