Getting Southern With Author Theresa Crater
As a Southern author myself, I always love connecting with other Southern authors. So I'd love you to meet Theresa Crater and learn about her recent book, The Star Family . What's your favorite thing about the South? Grits. Seriously. When I moved away from North Carolina, where I was born and raised, I couldn’t get grits. I missed them. Polenta is just not the same. I love the soft blue Appalachian Mountains and the Piedmont. I love the riot of color in the fall, the early spring flowers and roses blooming late. I also love that forthrightness of the South. People will tell you what they’re thinking for the most part. And talking to strangers in public. Down south, folks don’t stare at you like you’re maybe a bit nuts. In the South, they talk right back. How does the South affect your writing? I discovered some fascinating things about my ancestors, the Moravians, who settled Winston-Salem. My great, great—well, you know—grandfather came over in 1727. I ...