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As this heartfelt reminiscence makes clear, the books that chose Frye Gaillard shaped him like an extended family. As a child he never cared much for fairy tales "stories of cannibalism and mayhem in which giants and witches, tigers and wolves did their best to eat small children." But at the age of nine, he

• Title : The Books That Mattered: A Reader's Memoir
• Author : Frye Gaillard
• Rating : 4.55 (604 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-8-15
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 300 Pages
• Asin : 1588382877
• Language : English

As this heartfelt reminiscence makes clear, the books that chose Frye Gaillard shaped him like an extended family. As a child he never cared much for fairy tales "stories of cannibalism and mayhem in which giants and witches, tigers and wolves did their best to eat small children." But at the age of nine, he discovered Johnny Tremain, a children's novel of the Revolutionary War, which began a lifetime love affair with books, recounted here as a reader's tribute to the writings that enriched and altered his life. In a series of carefully crafted, often deeply personal essays, Gaillard blends memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore the works of Harper Lee, Anne Frank, James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, John Steinbeck, and many others. The Books That Mattered: A Reader's Memoir will make you study your own shelves to find clues into your own literary heart.. Frye Gaillard's first encounters with books were disappointing

. Gaillard has also received the Clarence Cason Award for Non-Fiction and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year Award. Frye Gaillard is writer in residence at the University of South Alabama and author of more than twenty books, including Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America, which won the Lillian Smith Award for non-fiction, and Watermelon Wine: The Spirit of Country Music, also published by NewSouth Books. He lives just south of Mobile, Alabama with his wife, Nancy

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