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Southern author Pamela Duncan, who has written The Big Beautiful,
Moon Women, and Plant Life, will speak at Dalton State College on
Wednesday, November 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the Goodroe Auditorium of
Memorial Hall.
Sponsored by the Fine Arts and Lecture Series committee and funded
through the Office of Student Activities, the event is free and open
to the public.
“Pamela Duncan is an award-winning author who writes about
relationships, family, heartbreak, and love,” says Jane Taylor,
Director of Public Relations at Dalton State. “Most of her stories
are set in the North Carolina foothills and contain a great deal of
local color and regional dialect that make them fun for folks in the
region to read.”
Duncan’s first book, called Moon Women, covers three generations of
women who live together in Madison County, North Carolina. The
Moons, including matriarch Marvelle, her daughters Ruth Ann and
Cassandra, and granddaughter Ashley, find themselves living in the
same home, separated by a secret only one of them can tell.
The Big Beautiful is the sequel to that story, and it centers around
Cassandra Moon’s decision to leave bridegroom at the altar in search
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“Plant Life is the story of woman who reluctantly returns to her
hometown after her marriage breaks up, but then comes into contact
with a group of textile mill workers who teach her a great deal
about life,” Taylor adds.
Duncan, who was born in Asheville, earned a B.A. in Journalism from
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. in
English and Creative Writing from North Carolina State University.
She currently lives in Cullowhee, North Carolina, and teaches
creative writing at Western Carolina University.
Moon Women was published in 2001 and was a Southeastern Booksellers
Association Award Finalist. Her second novel, Plant Life, won the
2003 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction. She received the 2007
James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South which was
awarded by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. The Big Beautiful was
published in 2007 as well. |
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