The Last Whippoorwill - Softcover

Mary Bryan Stafford grew up in Texas and spent agood part of her childhood and adult years at the ranch that she wrote about inthe book, A Wasp in the Fig Tree. 
She traveled to Virginia to attend William &Mary, majoring in Spanish and English, but she got back to Texas as soon as shecould. When she returned, she taught school for 30 years, raised threedaughters, coached tennis, sold real estate, and became what she was sure wasthe oldest living Texan teaching aerobic dance. During this time, she alsodiscovered a new passion...writing. And when she finally retired, she kept onwriting, while delving into another new passion...Natural Horsemanship.  
  
Mary writes what she knows about. She is aseventh generation Texan and Daughter of the Republic of Texas Her memoir,"Blowout," a novel excerpt is published in What Wildness is This: Women Write about theSouthwest, which won the Willa Award.  Her memoir "Epiphany" ispublished in The Noble Generation III and her poetry is published multiple times in TheTexas Poetry Calendar. In addition to winning first place in The Writers'League of Texas contest, A Wasp in theFig Tree won the Texas 2015 Author's Award for Best Historical Fiction.
 
Currently, she hasjust finished with her next novel entitled, TheLast Whippoorwill, another Texas based historical novel.