OUTHERN SAVORY

by Bernice Kelly Harris ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 3, 1964

Herb titles come naturally to this North Carolina writer--her novels, Pursuine and Portulaca, made her one of Chapel Hill's prize native authors. In this autobiography, her favorite spice is most accurately identified, for here the living Carolina counterparts of her fictional characters come to life in the same seasoned di-lect they spoke as folk figures. Amid stories of the Civil War, Mrs. Harris made her way through a childhood of churnings, cornshuckings and baptizings. At the time when Halley's Comet was news she took to studies and an awakened interest in folk rama and writing in general. Her collection of memories from a half a century bears she distinctive aura of Southern lore, the kind where local color is cast in its native characters. Thomas Wolfe saw them one way, Mrs. Harris sees them another; and for those who enjoyed her novels, the similarity to persons living or dead will not e coincidental.

Pub Date: Oct. 3, 1964

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1964

Categories: NONFICTION