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Lynne Bryant

Goodreads author profile

url

http://www.goodreads.com/MississippiWriter

born

October 20, 1959 in Columbus, MS, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.lynne-bryant.com

genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction

member since

September 2010

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I was born and raised in rural Mississippi, where my maternal grandparents farmed cotton and my mother is one of their fifteen children. I grew up during the era of the Civil Rights Movement and came of age during the volatile integration of Mississippi’s schools. I attended nursing school at Mississippi University for Women, and then went on to complete both a masters in nursing from Ole Miss and a PhD in nursing from the University of Colorado. I now teach nursing full-time in Colorado, but the home of my heart will always be Mississippi.
I came to writing later in life, finally allowing myself to unleash a love of storytelling and a lifetime of struggling to understand the complex race relations in Mississippi. My stories tackle issues m...more

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Average rating: 4.11 · 244 ratings · 94 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Catfish Alley 4.10 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Alligator Lake 4.18 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2012	My rating:

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Lynne Bryant added: The King of Lies by John Hart read in October, 2011	My rating:
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Lynne Bryant gave to: The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht (Goodreads Author) read in May, 2011	My rating:
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