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Wilma Dykeman

Born

in Asheville, North Carolina, The United States

May 20, 1920

Died

December 22, 2006

Genre

Fiction, Nonfiction

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Wilma Dykeman Stokely was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction whose works chronicled the people and land of Appalachia.

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Average rating: 4.16 · 1,618 ratings · 286 reviews · 41 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Tall Woman 4.34 avg rating — 1,029 ratings — published 1962 — 13 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
	The French Broad (Rivers of America, #50) 3.94 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 1955 — 15 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
	Family of Earth: A Southern Mountain Childhood 3.77 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2016 — 3 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
	The Far Family 3.71 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1966 — 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
	Return the Innocent Earth 3.86 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1974 — 9 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
	Mountain Home: A Pictorial History of Great Smoky Mountains National Park really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2008	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
	Battle of Kings Mountain, 1780: With Fire and Sword by Wilma Dykeman, Louis S. Glanzman (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1978 — 12 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
	Tennessee: A Bicentennial History 3.50 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1975 — 3 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
	Tennessee: A History 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1980 — 7 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
	Tennessee Woman: An Infinite Variety liked it 3.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1993 — 2 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

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“Did you ever think how wonderful to have so much ahead of us? There's a whole lifetime to be lived, all sorts of undreamed surprises to come, people to know, things to be done - and we're here! Sometimes I come right up against thinking about it and I'm so full of joy it fills plumb to the brim, like the psalmist's cup that just runs over.”
― Wilma Dykeman, The Tall Woman

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“Sometimes it seemed that work was the only certainty, the only lasting truth in a human world of fitful change. Work and the mountains remained.”
― Wilma Dykeman

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“Sometimes it seemed to Lydia that work was the only certainty, the only lasting truth in a human world of fitful change. Work and the mountains remained. Joy was deceitful and as brief as a summer rainbow. Love was a spear upon which you hurled yourself in ecstasy--to discover pain and bear the wound forever. A man in your heart, the child of your flesh, a dream of your spirit--you gave yourself to them, wholly and in wonder, and they never knew you.”
― Wilma Dykeman, The Tall Woman

tags: connections, endurance, isolation, pain

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What shall we read in February, 2020? Pre-1980?

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou

14 votes 28.6%

Shiloh, by Shelby Foote

10 votes 20.4%

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, by Ernest J. Gaines

9 votes 18.4%

Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe

8 votes 16.3%

The Tall Woman, by Wilma Dykeman

8 votes 16.3%

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