Goodreads asked Jonathan Carroll:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Jonathan Carroll That is a great question! I have been wanting to figure out a way to tell some of my unique family history and the family stories that have been passed on to me verbally throughout my life. Although Barnstorming is an historical fiction, a lot of those situations in the book did accrue. I could never figure out a way that I could tell the family stories in (to me) an interesting way. Then I found out that their was a white man that played Negro baseball and that was when the light bulb went off. Being the great grandson of one of the first Mayors of the first all free, self governed, black towns in America lends itself to the Negro baseball universe and the unique fact that a white man did play in the league. By combining all of that really interesting facts truly inspired me coupled with the fact that I could put some of these family experiences on paper to share with the world energized me and moved me to write this book.

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