Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Courtesy Ecco/Harper Collins "Varina" by Charles Frazier When Charles Frazier decided to write about the life of Varina Davis, he knew faced a challenge. The ...
She’s hooked on opioids, but it’s not a crisis. OK, maybe it's a tiny crisis, but who could fault her? Surely not Charles Frazier in his sympathetic portrait, "Varina," the reimagined life of Varina ...
Charles Frazier used to think he'd said enough about the Civil War. In Cold Mountain, he'd written an acclaimed novel that became an Oscar-winning movie. "After Cold Mountain, I never thought I wanted ...
It's been more than two decades since award-winning author Charles Frazier had wild success with his debut novel, "Cold Mountain." It became an international bestseller that won the National Book ...
Signing: 5 p.m. April 25, Off Square Books, Oxford; 5 p.m. April 26, Eudora Welty House, Jackson. Amidst a timely controversy about the relevance of Confederate monuments scattered across the South ...
If one reads “Gone with the Wind” as a sweet elegy for the Civil War, then Charles Frazier’s “Varina” is its bitter obituary. No “rest in peace” here, just be dead and be damned — in the title ...
Charles Frazier’s first novel, "Cold Mountain" (1997), describes the repercussions of the Civil War on the ordinary people of the Confederacy. Frazier’s new novel, "Varina," focuses on the other end ...
Charles Frazier didn’t plan to write about the Civil War again. His first novel, “Cold Mountain,” the doomed love story of a disillusioned Confederate soldier struggling to travel home to the woman ...
Jewelry always has fascinated me; especially period jewelry. So when I received a gold bracelet with five jade stones purchased at an Albany antique store I wanted to know its history. Apparently it ...
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Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian Kelly Hancock talked about Mary Todd Lincoln’s childhood and family. The Smithsonian Associates hosted this event. This lesson compares the ...