To Live In The South One Has To Be A Scar Lover

Presents Susan Ketchin's discerning interviews with twelve southerners living and writing in the South. Along with a piece of fiction by each are her penetrating commentaries about the impact of southern religious experience on their work.

The first full-length biography of one of the most unlikely figures in twentieth-century American literature, a writer who emerged from a dirt-poor South Georgia tenant farm and went on to create a singularly unique voice of fiction.

If we rise, we rise together as a team, and if we fall, we fall together as a team. Thats exactly the message I try to convey, in this masterpiece of poems , short story ,and letter to the world. Even as I belief in collective responsibility in order to effect positive change, I repeat this theme quite often, in the sense of what I want the world to get out of this work, and many of my work that follow through. Expediently! If anyone is to have unique meaning for this work. Please change every I in it to You that way you will know, it could be about you, and not about me .Even though it is From my soul to life, and the society I love it is a message of peace; love ; struggle; sacrifice; building of character, and harmony for all Gods children, were all Gods children .Thank you, and God bless you.

For author Meva J. Scarff, love groomed her from childhood, and it has always been a big part of her life. With a large extended family, she experienced it from all directions. In Surrounded by Love, Scarff shares her life story and provides insight and background into the family that enveloped her warmly. This memoir narrates the key elements of Scarff's life beginning with her birth in January of 1936 to her parents Glenn and Frances Johnson. She tells of carefree days growing up as the oldest of four children and of her marriage, raising her own children, and graduating from college in 1970. Scarff discusses her passion for teaching, an enjoyable career that spanned thirty years in West Virginia. With her personal works of poetry included, Surrounded by Love offers insight into Scarff's life and all of the wonderful years that were filled with fun and laughter.