Bailey White

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January 01, 1950 in Thomasville, GA, The United States

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Bailey White was born in 1950 in Thomasville, Ga. She still lives in the same house in which she grew up, on one of the large tracts of virgin longleaf pine woods. Her father, Robb White, was a fiction writer and later a television and movie script writer. Her mother, Rosalie White, was a farmer, and worked for many years as the executive director of the local Red Cross Chapter. She has one brother, who is a carpenter and boat builder, and one sister, who is a bureaucrat. White graduated from Florida State University in 1973, and has taken a break from teaching first grade to pursue writing full-time. She is the author of Sleeping at the Starlite Motel, Mama Makes Up Her Mind, and Quite a Year for Plums.

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Books by Bailey White

Average rating: 3.72 · 2,417 ratings · 384 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living 3.96 avg rating — 1,138 ratings — published 1993 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Quite a Year for Plums 3.22 avg rating — 609 ratings — published 1998 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: and Other Adventures on the Way Back Home 3.82 avg rating — 494 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Nothing with Strings: NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories 3.44 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Among the Mushrooms 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	An Interesting Life: Selections from Mama Makes Up Her Mind 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Native Air 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Ostrich Farmer and Other Stories 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Bailey White Thanksgiving by Bailey White, Audio Dove (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Lost Parrot and Other Stories 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1996	My rating:

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“I'm tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I'm going camping.”
― Bailey White, Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living

tags: camping , family , libertines

9 people liked it

“It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into the shadows. I could hear a thud as they hit the floor joists, then a scuttling sound, then, worst of all, the silence of spiders.”
― Bailey White, Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living

tags: humor , spiders

4 people liked it

“When Mama starts to move across a room, people pay attention. You can never be sure she's not going to grab you by the top of the head to steady herself. And she's pretty free with that walking stick, too.”
― Bailey White, Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living

tags: aging , humor

3 people liked it

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