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Jeffrey Dale Lofton

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Jeffrey Lofton hails from Warm Springs, Georgia, best known as the home of Roosevelt’s Little White House. He calls the nation’s capital home now. During those early years he spent many a night trodding the boards of DC’s theaters, including the Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth, Washington Shakespeare Company, Signature Theatre, and Studio Theatre. He even scored a few television screen appearances, including a Super Bowl halftime commercial, which his accountant called “the finest work of your career.”

Today he is a senior advisor at the Library of Congress where he is surrounded by books and people who love books—in short, paradise.

Red Clay Suzie is his first novel, a fictionalized memoir written through his personal lens as an outsider—gay ...more

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Average rating: 4.21 · 461 ratings · 119 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Red Clay Suzie 4.21 avg rating — 458 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	WELL READ Magazine's Best of 2023 Volume One by Jeffrey Dale Lofton (Goodreads Author), Mandy Haynes (Goodreads Author) (editor), T. K. Thorne it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	WELL READ Magazine's Best of 2023 Volume One by Mandy Haynes (Goodreads Author), Jeffrey Dale Lofton (Goodreads Author), T. K. Thorne it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Clay Suzie: A Novel Inspired by True Events - Library Edition by Jeffrey Dale Lofton (Goodreads Author), Pete Cross (Narrator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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There’s an almost Dickensian denseness to Robert Gwaltney's lyrical writing that invites a savor-every-turn-of-phrase reading. Happy to report, his Sing Down the Moon is no different. This lavish, beautifully-told ghost story is populated with charac ...more
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