Corn Born & Corn Bread: A Collection of Southern Essays

by Neal Wooten

Neal Wooten was born and bred on Sand Mountain in the town of Blake, Alabama and has been writing articles from a uniquely Southern perspective for newspapers, magazines, and the Huffington Post for the last 15 years. Drawing upon his time from raising hogs, fishing, school, farming, sports, and just being a kid growing up in the South, Corn Born & Corn A Collection of Southern Essays puts together 73 articles of Neal’s vivid memory of the South of yesteryear. He might have lived all over, but as Neal says, “You can take the boy from the mountain, but not the mountain from the boy.”

150 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 27, 2019

About the author

Neal Wooten grew up on a pig farm on Sand Mountain in the northeast corner of Alabama before being dragged kicking and screaming to the snow-infested plains of the American Midwest. He now resides in Milwaukee with his wife and three dogs.

He is a columnist for The Mountain Valley News, an author, artist, and a standup comedian. His work has appeared in several anthologies and magazines.

He is the author of Reternity, a sci-fi novel based on the Bible, which has won eight national awards and named to Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011. His new book, The Balance, a gay-themed sci-fi novel, will be released by Bold Strokes Books in April 2014.

Reviews

[Koren · Rating 3 out of 5]

First time reading this author. This was downloaded from the library and the typos were a little distracting. It was funny at times and a little nostalgic. I am currently reading another book by this author and some of the stories are also in this book.