Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press (2009)

First Edition. Signed.

Very near fine in dust jacket.

Fanning the Spark is the story of Mary Ward Brown's life as a writer her upbringing in rural Alabama; the joys of college, marriage, and motherhood; the sorrows of becoming a widow; and a lifelong devotion to writing, writers, and literature, and the company of those who shared those loves, nurturing and feeding her interior life in the face of many challenges, losses, and obstacles, both emotional and material.