Shortly after Grace King wrote her first stories in post-Reconstruction New Orleans, she entered a world of famous figures and literary giants greater than she

Not as well-known as some of her contemporaries—Mark Twain, George W. Cable, and Joel Chandler Harris, to name a few—author and historian Grace King (1851�

In this enchanting memoir of her life in New Orleans, Grace King depicts a world that few can imagine. From the Civil War to the Great Depression, she records t

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