Sharyn mccrumb biography of mahatma

PERSONAL:

Born February 26, 1948, in Wilmington, NC; married David McCrumb (a corporate environmental director), January 9, 1982; children: Spencer, Laura.

Sharyn mccrumb biography of mahatma gandhi

Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., 1970; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, M.A., 1985.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Roanoke, VA.

CAREER:

Full-time novelist and lecturer, 1988—.

Smoky Mountain Times, Bryson City, NC, reporter; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, assistant film librarian, 1981-82, university film librarian, 1982-88, Appalachian studies teacher, 1983—, adjunct professor of communications and journalism, 1986-88.

Speaker at institutions, including University of Bonn, the American Library (Berlin, Germany), Oxford University, the Smithsonian Institution, and at literary festivals and universities throughout the United States.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Best Appalachian Novel Award, Appalachian Writer's Association, 1985, for Lovely in Her Bones, and 1992, for T