Women to Remember

by Kathryn Tucker Windham

In these stories of her mother, her Aunt Bet, and other women who influenced her, author and storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham reveals the complexity of Southern women in the days before feminism entered the common vocabulary. A legacy of independent women permeates these recollections: women who managed households, who became entrepreneurs, and who managed public facilities. The women she remembers may have been fair, but they certainly were not weak.

Genres: Nonfiction

1 pages, Audio CD

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Kathryn Tucker Windham was an American storyteller, author, photographer, and journalist.

Windham got her first writing job at the age of 12, reviewing movies for her cousin's small town newspaper, The Thomasville Times. She earned a B.A. degree from Huntingdon College in 1939. Soon after graduating she became a reporter for the Alabama Journal. Starting in 1944 she worked for The Birmingham News. In 1946 she married Amasa Benjamin Windham with whom she had three children. In 1956 she went to work at the Selma Times-Journal where she won several Associated Press awards for her writing and photography. A collection of her photographs is on display at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. She died on June 12, 2011. The 2004 documentary film, Kathryn: The Story of a Teller, directed by Norton Dill, chronicles Windham's life and varied careers.

Reviews

[Readstoomuch · Rating 4 out of 5]

This tiny read is soooooo short! I listened to the audio version and honestly it was only 15-20 minutes long. The author who is the elderly lady of whom the stories are about is also the reader. She has read several books which she write about her life in small town Alabama. I plan to listen to each of them.

[Reading into the Void · Rating 5 out of 5]

I highly recommend this as an audiobook. Hearing these women tell their own stories was beautiful.

[Connie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Listened audio. Wonderful story-teller.