about the author
Kathryn Hocutt Hamrick, a North Carolinian, is a native of Asheville. The daughter of a Baptist minister and a high school history teacher, she grew up in Spencer and graduated from Wake Forest University with a degree in Spanish. Her college roommate introduced Kathryn to Cline B. Hamrick, a graduate and employee of NC State University with a degree in agriculture and a desire to go home to Boiling Springs to farm. Kathryn was not interested … They married the next June, went home to farm, and she began writing soon thereafter.