Dean Harding McGarity, born in l924 in rural Mississippi, a few miles from the famous Civil War Battlefield at Vicksburg. Although she has lived in Texas for many years, she has sa...voir plusDean Harding McGarity, born in l924 in rural Mississippi, a few miles from the famous Civil War Battlefield at Vicksburg. Although she has lived in Texas for many years, she has said, “Whenever I begin to write a story, my heart goes home to Mississippi. Sometimes memories crowd my mind, and it seems I hear again the soft, gentle, yet sometimes strident voices of the South, and I catch the picturesque phrases of those who lived there in the long gone by, and I try to tell their stories.voir moins