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  • Rain on a Strange Roof: A Southern Literary Memoir

    Rain on a Strange Roof: A Southern Literary Memoir - Hardcover

    Rain on a Strange Roof: A Southern Literary Memoir - Hardcover

    By Jan Whitt

About Jan Whitt Books

Jan Whitt was born in poverty in Knoxville, Tennessee, and adopted five months later by fundamentalist Baptist missionaries who struggled with the demands of parenthood. Reliant upon books for escape, Whitt left home in her teens and earned a B.A. in English and journalism and an M.A. in English from Baylor University by working full time at a local newspaper. She received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Denver in 1985, and, today, she is a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.