Native Air: Stories from the Bestselling Sleeping at the Starlite Motel

by Bailey White

This is the latest collection of National Public Radio's(r ) commentator and South Georgia teacher Bailey White's delightful and insightful essays from the bestselling Sleeping at the Starlite Motel.

Audio Cassette

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Karen]

Baily White is a delight, but this was incredibly short and only left you wanting more. BTW, she is a great BOT narrator for her own work.