Bailey White
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Bailey White (born in 1950 in Thomasville, Georgia,) is an American author and a regular radio commentator for the National Public Radio program All Things Considered.
She is the daughter of Robb White, who was a fiction writer, and Rosalie White, a farmer.[1] Her mother, and her South Georgian eccentricity, was a central figure in White's commentaries until she passed away in the late 1990's.
White graduated from Florida State University and taught elementary school in her hometown for more than twenty years.[2] Her friend, Daniel Pinkwater, convinced her to submit some commentaries to NPR. Her gravelly voice and gift for portraying the unusual personalities of people in the rural South with gentle wit proved very popular with her NPR audience.[2] In 1999, she left teaching to concentrate on her writing.
White has penned three books, Mama Makes Up Her Mind, Sleeping at the Starlite Motel, and Quite a Year for Plums.
[edit] Books by Bailey White
- (1994) Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living. Vintage (Reprint edition). ISBN 0679751602.
- (1996) Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: and Other Adventures on the Way Back Home. Vintage (Reprint edition). ISBN 0679770151.
- (1999) Quite a Year for Plums: A Novel. Vintage (Reprint edition). ISBN 0679764925.
[edit] External links
- NPR, "What would they say in Birmingham?, November 23, 2006. Contains links to other Bailey White stories.
[edit] Notes
- ^ NPR, Bailey White Bio. Retrieved Dec. 19, 2006.
- ^ a b Charlotte Pfeiffer, The New Georgia Encyclopedia, Bailey White, July 11, 2002. Retrieved Dec. 19, 2006.
