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Sharyn McCrumb

Biography

Sharyn McCrumb

Sharyn McCrumb is the author of THE BALLAD OF FRANKIE SILVER, SHE WALKS THESE HILLS, and many other award-winning novels. Her books have been named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. She was named a “Virginia Woman of History” for achievement in literature in 2008. She lives and writes in the Virginia Blue Ridge, less than a hundred miles from where her family settled in 1790 in the Smoky Mountains that divide North Carolina and Tennessee.

Sharyn McCrumb is the author of THE BALLAD OF FRANKIE SILVER, SHE WALKS THESE HILLS, and many other award-winning novels. Her books have been named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. She was named a “Virginia Woman of History” for achievement in literature in 2008. She lives and writes in the Virginia Blue Ridge, less than a hundred miles from where her family settled in 1790 in the Smoky Mountains that divide North Carolina and Tennessee.

Books by Sharyn McCrumb

by Sharyn McCrumb - Fiction, Historical Fiction

What began as a fictional re-telling of the historical account of one of the most famous mountain ballads of all time became an astonishing revelation of the real culprit responsible for the murder of Laura Foster.