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Dot Jackson


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Miami, FL, The United States

Dot Jackson was born to Appalachian parents in Miami in 1932, where she later gave up her college studies of music and dance to become a writer. She died in 2016.

Her lifelong career in newspapers drew her to the mountain regions of the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee, where she covered murder trials, snake-handling prayer meetings, and some of the hardest-fought environmental battles of our times.

Her work garnered Jackson several Pulitzer Prize nominations and a National Conservation Writer of the Year award. She also collaborated on several acclaimed books of non-fiction.

She was co-founder and on-site manager of the Birchwood Center for Arts and Folklife in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina. Refuge was Dot Jackson’s fi ...more

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Average rating: 4.24 · 4,659 ratings · 345 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors
Refuge
4.24 avg rating — 4,658 ratings — published 2006 — 16 editions
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“My mother explained it for him once. “There is nothing there for anyone who has ambition and intelligence,” she said.”
― Dot Jackson, Refuge
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“We can none of us say why this thing, or that thing. The book was done written when the characters were born.”
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“I had never felt the kind of love for anything, or anybody like I felt for this piece of earth, right then. And for what we were about to add to it.”
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