Bachleda, F. Lynne (1951- )
A
resident of Fairview since 1996, Lynne Bachleda purchased her acre of Williamson
County with earnings from writing in connection with the state’s bicentennial. A
freelance curator and exhibit planner, she researched and wrote materials for
the Bicentennial Capitol Mall in collaboration with the Tennessee State Museum.
In 1998 Bachleda and museum curators completed the next stage of text for the
mall’s Pathway of History. Her spiritual anthology, Blue Mountain, was
rated by Amazon.com as one of the “Top 10 Inspirational Books for 2000.”
She continues to research, edit, and write on a variety of subjects.
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–A Guide to the Natchez
Trace Parkway, 2005
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–Canticles of the Earth,
2004
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–Dangerous
Wildlife in California and Nevada: A Guide to Safe Encounters at Home and in
the Wild, 2002
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–Dangerous
Wildlife in the mid-Atlantic: A Guide to Safe Encounters at Home and in the
Wild, 2001
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–Dangerous
Wildlife in the Southeast: A Guide to Safe Encounters at Home and in the
Wild, 2001
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–Blue
Mountain: A Spiritual Anthology Celebrating the Earth,
2000
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–Pathway to Tennessee
History, 1998
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–Network
Television News: Conviction, Controversy, and Point of View
(with Paul C. Simpson and Patricia G. Lane), 1995
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Badger, David (1949- )
A native of Willmette,
Illinois, David Badger received his A.B. degree
at Duke
University, his M.S.J. from Northwestern, and his
Ph.D. in communication from UT-Knoxville. He moved to the
Nashville area in 1976 and wrote book reviews and
columns for the Tennessean
for seventeen years and film reviews for public radio station WPLN while
teaching journalism and motion picture history at
Middle
Tennessee
State
University. In addition to the books he has
authored, he has edited more than a dozen others.
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–Lizards (with photographer John
Netherton), 2003
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–Snakes (with photographer John
Netherton), 1999
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–Frogs World Life Library (with
John Netherton), 1999
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–Frogs (with photographer John
Netherton), 1995
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–Newscraft
(co-author), 1982
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Baker, Mark A.
Mark
Baker emigrated with his family from
Canada
to
Phoenix,
Arizona,
when he was four years old. He has a master’s degree in American Studies from
Utah
State
University.
For his thesis, he researched the difference between the pop culture image of
the longhunter and the real woodsmen who inspired
those stories. He expanded his thesis into a book. Baker is a recognized
authority in such areas as the handling of a longrifle.
For example, he served as a ‘coach’ for Daniel Day Lewis in the movie The Last of the Mohicans. Baker has contributed over 65 articles to Muzzleloader magazine since 1986. He has also contributed chapters
to academic publications. As a resident of
Williamson
County,
he has taught English and broadcast journalism at
Page
High School.
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Ball, Alice Breuer
(1944 - )
Alice Ball’s books grew out of her
experiences—one chosen, the other imposed. Both were written in her later years
as a resident of
Brentwood. Ball majored in interior design at the
University of
Louisiana at
Monroe, had her own shop, and became a
consultant in interior design. After years of experience, she wrote on the
subject. The imposed tragic experience, her
first husband’s illness and death as a young man, led to her second book. The
book describes both the corruption and incompetence in parts of the medical
world and Ball’s healing spiritual experience of forgiveness. This book led to
speaking engagements and a screenplay.
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–Patient
Betrayal (with Timothy Kaine), 2003
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–Beauty
Plus Utility: How to Decorate Your Home the
Smart Money Way, 1996
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Barcus, Sam (1946
- )
Born in
Temple,
Texas, Sam Barcus
attended the University of
Texas and the
University of
Houston. During his employment with Price
Waterhouse, he relocated to
Nashville. In 1987 he started his own technology
consulting firm. His career benefited from a request from IBM for consultative
sales training. Barcus moved to
Franklin in 1996 and in 1998 started Newleaf Partners, a firm specializing in consultative
selling. His books resulted from his work.
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–The Relationship
Advantage (with Tom Stevenson), 2003
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–The Handbook of Management Consulting
Services (with Joe Walkman) [editor and contributor], 1994, 2nd
edition
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–Financial
Information Systems Manual [editor and contributor], 1991
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Batey, Marie
Marie Batey,
a native of Nolensville, attended
Williamson
County schools.
After business college, she worked 20 years as
a secretary. Known for having written the history of the
Nolensville
Methodist
Church and articles for the Williamson County
Historical Society, she was asked by fellow officers of the Tennessee
Conference of United Methodist Women to compile the centennial year history of
the role of women in the
Methodist
Church in
Tennessee. She made extensive contributions to Nolensville: 1797–1987 and continues her
work in history and genealogy. Batey currently lives
in Lewisburg.
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Bell, Madison Smartt
Madison Bell, the son of Circuit
Court Judge Henry Denmark Bell, grew up on
Manley Lane. A graduate of
Montgomery
Bell
Academy and
Princeton
University,
Bell is a prolific writer of novels and short
fiction. In several of these works he has skillfully re-created the locale of
his youth in Williamson
County. He has taught creative writing and
literature courses at
Goucher
College since 1984, as well as being a visiting
lecturer at Johns
Hopkins
University, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and the
Poetry
Center of the
92nd Street YMHA in
New York City. His short fiction is often found in
anthologies and literary journals, and he has written screenplays, essays, and
reviews. Some of his works have been translated into several languages. The
Literary Committee of the Williamson County Arts Council elected
Bell to the Williamson County Authors’ Hall
of Fame in 1998.
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–Freedom's Gate: A Brief Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, 2007
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–Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, 2007
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–Anything Goes, 2002
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–Master of the
Crossroads, 2000
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–Narrative Design:
Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form,
2000
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–Narrative Design: A Writer’s Guide to
Structure, 1997
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–Ten Indians, 1996
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–All Souls’ Rising, 1995
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–Save Me, Joe Louis, 1993
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–Dr. Sleep, 1991
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–Barking Man and Other Stories, 1990
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–Soldier’s Joy, 1989
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–The Year of Silence, 1987
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–ZERO db and Other Stories, 1987
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–Straight Cut, 1986
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–Waiting for the End of the World, 1985
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–The
Washington
Square Ensemble, 1983
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Bennett, Harold C.
(1924-2003)
Harold Bennett was born in
Asheville,
North Carolina, and graduated from
Wake
Forest
University. He did graduate work at Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary,
Duke
University, and Georgia Tech. Bennett pastored several Baptist churches. From 1967 to 1979, he
was the Executive Director/Treasurer of the Florida Baptist Convention. From
1979 to 1992, he served as President/Treasurer of the Executive Committee of
the Southern Baptist Convention; after retirement, he served as president
emeritus of the Executive Committee. He was an officer of the Baptist World
Alliance and a board member of the American Bible Society. He wrote numerous
entries for the Encyclopedia of Southern
Baptists, in both 1971 and 1982, and authored hundreds of articles for
Baptist publications.
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–Reflections
of Faith, 1983
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–God’s
Awesome Challenge (co-author), 1980
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–Faithful
to the Lord (co-author), 1973
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Benton, Thomas Hart
(1782–1858)
Born in
Orange County,
North Carolina, Thomas Hart Benton and his siblings
came to the Leipers Fork area with their widowed
mother in 1800. Educated at the
University of
North Carolina,
Benton began to study law in 1804 and became a
member of the
Franklin
Bar in 1806, after which he had a lively
practice here. He served in the Tennessee State Senate from 1809 until 1811.
After a disagreement with Andrew Jackson led to a duel on the public square in
Nashville,
Benton moved to
Missouri in 1815.
He represented
Missouri in the United States Senate for 30 years
supporting causes that opened the interior of our country to transportation and
communication. Above all,
Benton was for preservation of the
Union.
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Bernet, William
Bill Bernet
grew up in an air force family, living in
Washington,
D.C.,
Massachusetts, and
Japan, but he calls
Oklahoma home. Educated at
Holy
Cross
College and at
Harvard
Medical
School, he is well known as an expert regarding
divorce, child maltreatment, and psychotherapy with adolescents, having
contributed to many journals and textbooks. Dr. Bernet came to
Nashville as medical director of the Psychiatric
Hospital at Vanderbilt. He then became director of Vanderbilt Forensic
Psychiatry. He lived in Brentwood. Dr. Bernet
helped to edit two handbooks on parenting for the
American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychology. He
has written a book on divorce and co-authored a book on psychotherapy.
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–Children of Divorce: A Practical Guide for
Parents, Attorneys, and Therapists, 1995
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–Fragile
Alliance: An
Orientation to Psychotherapy of the Adolescent (with Dr. John Meeks), 1990
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Blackmer,
Robert B. (1934–)
A native of the
Thousand
Island region of northern
New York, Bob Blackmer was brought to Middle Tennessee by the United States
Air Force in September of 1953. He is retired from the military and from his
roles as company executive and business owner. He provided consultation to
organizations and individuals in the fields of business planning and leadership
through the International Speakers’ Network. He was a Distinguished Toastmaster
in the Bellevue and Brentwood Toastmaster Clubs. He was
a professional speaker, but his true loves were playing Scrooge at Dickens of a
Christmas in Franklin and also portraying Benjamin Franklin.
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–A.C.H.I.E.V.E.M.E.N.T.: 270 Tips to Boost
Your Career, 1995
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–Living with Crippling Arthritis, 1989
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Blackwell, Muriel Fontenot
Muriel Blackwell, a native
Louisianan, moved to
Brentwood in 1970. She holds a B.A. in English and
journalism from
Louisiana
College and an M.Ed. from LSU.
She taught English and creative writing in
Louisiana
public schools and designed curricula
for both public and Christian education. She was the Director of the Preschool-Children Bible Teaching Division of the Baptist Sunday School Board (Lifeway) in Nashville. In addition to her books, she has
published musicals and multimedia materials, and her work has appeared in
educational and denominational journals and in the Cumberland Poetry Magazine. She has received honors both as an
educator and as a writer and was listed in Who’s
Who of American Women, 1984.
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–How Do I Become a Christian?, 1990
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–The Keeping Shelf, 1985
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–The Dream Lives On, 1984
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–Called to Teach Children, 1983
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–The Secret Dream, 1981
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–Working Partners/Working Parents (with
William L. Blackwell), 1979
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–Peter, the Prince of Apostles, 1976,
1981
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–Teaching Children in Sunday
School, 1976
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–Potter and Clay, 1975
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–Adventures in Family Living, 1975
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–Outreach for Children, 1971
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–Prairie Potpourri, 1966
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Blackwell, William L.
A native of
Forest,
Louisiana, Dr. Bill Blackwell studied social
science and psychology at
Louisiana College, Louisiana State University, and
University of
Tennessee, and received his D.R.E. from
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Ft.
Worth. While teaching at his alma mater,
Louisiana
College, he met his wife, Muriel. He pastored in
Louisiana, and then moved to
Brentwood in 1970 to serve as Associate Pastor and
Director of Counseling for
First
Baptist
Church in
Nashville from 1970 until his retirement in 1991.
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–Prophets Who Spoke for God, 1981
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–Working Partners/Working Parents (with
Muriel Blackwell), 1979
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–Youth in/on Bold
Mission, 1977
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–This Is My Bible, 1975
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–My Friends in Other Faiths, 1973
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–Where I Live, 1971
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Blackwood, Cheryl Prewitt
Cheryl Prewitt was the reigning Miss
America during 1980. Raised in
Choctaw County,
Mississippi, she has sung with her family, The Prewitts, since the age of five. She is a pianist and composer of gospel
songs. Her book is the story of her recovery from a childhood accident and of
her own religious faith. She lived in
Franklin for several years.
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Bond, Octavia Zollicoffer (1846–1941)
Octavia Zollicoffer Bond was the daughter of General Felix Zollicoffer,
Nashville newspaper editor and the first
Confederate general to be killed in the Civil War. When
Fort Donelson fell and
Nashville was threatened, Octavia
and her young sisters moved to Ravenswood, the home of her older sister on
Wilson Pike, and stayed there throughout the war. Old Tales Retold is a collection of early
Tennessee stories passed on to the author by her
father.
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Boatman, Ellie (see
Akin, Genie)
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Booker, Monroe
J. (1921- )
Born in Hohenwald in 1921, Monroe
Booker has lived in
Franklin since he was five. He graduated from
Franklin
Training School, served in the South Pacific in World
War II, and ran a service station on
West Main
in partnership with his brother for more than 50 years. He and his wife, Mary,
have reared and provided college educations for 12 children. His book is a
collection of inspirational thoughts and poems by means of which he shared his
faith with his children as they grew up.
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Booth, Carolyn J. (1938– )
A
Nashville native, Carolyn Booth worked in the
offices of UT- Nashville until she and her environmental-engineer husband began
their family of three daughters. Since then she has devoted herself to her
family and a host of school and church volunteer projects. For several years
she headed the Red Cross volunteer program of in-school visual and hearing
screenings. When she learned that her first grandchild was on the way, she
began to consider what the child might call her, and in talking to friends
learned that the possibilities were myriad. Hence the title
of her first book. Its success led to a companion book. Her daughter Mindy collaborated on both projects, as well as a third
book.
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–Grandparents: Gifts of Love, Humor, and
Wisdom (with
Mindy
Henderson), 2000
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–Grandfather by Another
Name (with Mindy
Henderson), 1998
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–Grandmother by Another
Name (with Mindy
Henderson), 1997
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Bowman, Virginia
McDaniel (1923- )
The
first inductee into the Williamson County Authors’ Hall of Fame and the
official county historian of
Williamson
County for many years, Virginia Bowman has
earned these honors through outstanding work as a genealogist and historian.
Her book
Historic
Williamson
County,
Old Homes and Sites has
had an immeasurable impact on our local historic preservation efforts by
educating both old and new citizens about our heritage. She has deep roots in
Williamson
County; both parents’ families came here in the
early 1800’s. She was reared here, married Joseph Hamilton Bowman, a farmer and
county building commissioner, and has two children and two grandsons still
contributing to the community. She has been an active member of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, the Williamson County Historical Society, and the
Carnton Association.
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Boyd, Lucas G. (1932- )
Luke Boyd is a native of the rural Mississippi Delta. After graduating from Ole Miss, he taught at
Webb School in Bell Buckle while
acquiring a master’s degree from Middle Tennessee State University and a Ph.D. from
UT-Knoxville. He retired after 19 years as principal of Battle Ground Academy. Throughout his life he
has been a storyteller. His stories have appeared in Our Voices 1996, 1997, and 1998. He also has an entry on Battle Ground Academy in the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and
Culture. Winner of the Kate Trickey Award in
1997, he was asked to compile a collection of his memories and stories of life
in the Mississippi Delta during the Depression.
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–Don’t Call
Me Hero (with Jim McGregor), 2003
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–Coon Dogs, Outhouses & Other Southern
Samplings, 1998
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Bransford,
Helen
A native of
Nashville, Helen Bransford
is a jewelry designer and writer for Vogue
magazine. She and her writer husband, Jay McInerney,
and their twins divide their time between
New York City and their home in
Williamson
County. Older than her husband and a late in
life mother, she decided to undergo cosmetic surgery. The experience provided
material for her book.
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Britnell,
Angela
Angela Britnell was born and raised in
Cornwall, England.
All her writing is set in England. She spent six years in the Royal Navy and met her husband Richard (then a serving U.S. Naval Officer) at NATO Headquarters in Denmark. They married and lived in Demnark, Sicily, California Maryland, and London before he reitred from the Navy. A few years after moving to Franklin, Angela took a creative writing course and was hooked on writing. She is a member of the Music City Romance Writers.
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Brown, Jesse Glenn (1910- )
Glenn Brown was born in 1910 into a
large, hard-working rural family in
Dickson
County. In 1923 they moved to the Forest Home
community of Williamson
County. Brown became involved in the general
stores and the trucking of the area that extended from
Water
Valley in northern Maury
County through
Hillsboro and Beechville
and on to Nashville. He and his wife Marion reared their two
children in Williamson
County. Brown worked in many businesses and
served as a forward-thinking magistrate on the Williamson County Court. His
memoirs provide a rich insight into rural Middle Tennessee’s past.
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Brown, H. Jackson
(1940–)
Jack
Brown, a
Nashville native, graduated from
Emory
University in
Atlanta and has been an active citizen of both
Nashville and
Franklin throughout his career in advertising and
his involvement in fund-raising for many causes. His many books have sold
millions of copies and have been translated into thirty-two languages. Life's Little Instruction Book is the
only book by an American author to be number one on the New York Times Bestsellers List in both the softcover
and the hardcover categories at the same time. Brown has devoted much time to
encouraging aspiring authors through the Tennessee Writers Alliance.
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–Book
of Love for My Daughter (with others), 2001
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–Highlighted
in Yellow: a Short Course in Living Wisely and Choosing Well (with
Rochelle Pennington), 2001
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–Life’s
Instructions on Wisdom, Success, and Happiness, 2000
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–Life’s
Little Instruction Book for Incurable Romantics (with Robyn F.
Spizman), 2000
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–Life’s
Little Instructions from the Bible: Ancient and Contemporary Wisdom to Fuel
Your Faith and Empower Your Life (with Rosemary C. Brown), 2000
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–Life’s
Little Treasure Book on Things that Really Matter, 1999
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–Life’s
Little Treasure Book on Simple Pleasures, 1999
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–On
Fathers, 1998
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–On
Mothers, 1998
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–A
Hero in Every Heart, 1997
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–Live
and Learn and Pass It On, Vol. III, 1997
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–Complete
Life's Little Instruction Book (3 vols. in 1), 1997
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–On
Friendship, 1996
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–The
Little Book of Christmas Joys, 1996 and 1994
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–Life’s
Little Treasure Book on Hope, 1996
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–Life’s
Little Treasure Book on Friendship, 1996
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–Life’s
Little Treasure Book of Christmas Traditions, (with Rosemary C. Brown, and Kathy
Peel), 1996
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–Life’s
Little Instruction Book, Vol. III, 1995
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–Live
and Learn and Pass It On, Vol. II, 1995
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–Life’s
Little Treasure Book on Love, 1995
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–Life’s
Little Treasure Book on Parenting, 1995
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–When
You Lick a Slug Your Tongue Goes Numb, 1994
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–Life’s
Little Treasure Book on Success, 1994
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–Life’s
Little Treasure Book on Wisdom, 1994
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–Life’s
Little Treasure Book on Joy, 1994
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–Life’s
Little Treasure Book on Marriage and Family, 1994
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–Life’s
Little Instruction Book, Vol. II, 1993
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–Live
and Learn and Pass It On, Vol. I, 1992
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–Life’s
Little Instruction Book, Vol. I, 1991
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–A
Father’s Book of Wisdom, 1988
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Browne, Harry (1933- )
Harry Browne, investment advisor,
author, radio personality, and public speaker, was the 1996 and 2000
Libertarian candidate for President of the
United States. Reared in
Los Angeles, he spent only two weeks in college. He
was unknown to the investment world in 1970 when his first book How You Can Profit from the Coming Devaluation
became a New York Times bestseller.
Later
books have also been bestsellers. His financial newsletter Harry Browne’s Special
Reports was published continually from 1974 to 1997. He has maintained a
busy schedule of live talks and talks on radio and television, as well as
posting much of his material on his website. Browne is a resident of
Franklin.
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–The Great Libertarian Offer, 2000
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–Fail-Safe Investing: Lifelong Financial Safety in 30
Minutes, 1999
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–How I Found Freedom in an Unfree
World, 1998 reissue, 1973
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–Cross Border Links Environmental Directory, 1997
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–Cross Border Links Labor Directory, 1997
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–Citizen Diplomats Shaping Globalization, 1997
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–Spain’s Civil War, 1996
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–Why
Government Doesn’t Work, 1995
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–Crossing the Line: Immigrants, Economic Integration, and
Drug Enforcement on the U.S.-Mexican Border
(with Tom Barry and Beth Simms), 1994
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–For Richer, For Poorer—Shaping Mexican Integration (with Tom Barry and Beth Sims), 1994
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–Zapata’s Revenge: Free Trade and the Farm Crisis in
Mexico
(with
Tom Barry), 1994
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–Runaway
America:
U.S. Jobs and Factories on the Move
(with Beth Sims), 1993
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–The
Economic Time Bomb, 1989
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–Why
the Best-Laid Investment Plans Usually Go Wrong, 1987
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–Inflation-Proofing
Your Investments (with Terry Coxon), 1981
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–New
Profits from the Monetary Crisis, 1978
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–Harry
Browne's Complete Guide to Swiss Banks, 1976
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–You
Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, 1974
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–How
You Can Profit from the Coming Devaluation, 1970
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Buffett, Jimmy
One of
America’s most popular musicians, Jimmy Buffett was born in
Pascagoula,
Mississippi, and reared in
Mobile,
Alabama. He is a third-generation sailor and
pilot. He has written short stories, novels, and in collaboration with his
daughter, Savannah, children’s books. For several years he
lived at Old
Town on the Old Natchez Trace. While he was
here, he received an architectural award for the restoration of this historic
home. He has since moved back to
Key West,
Florida.
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–Tales from Margaritaville:
Fictional Facts and Factual Fiction, 2002, 1989
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–The Pirate at Fifty, 1998
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–Daybreak on the Equator, 1996
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–Where Is Joe Merchant: A Novel Tale,
1992
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–Everyone in the Woods Wants to Eat a Quail
(Including Me), 1992
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–Trouble Dolls (with
Savannah Buffett), 1991
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–The Jolly Mon (with
Savannah Buffett), 1988
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Bumpus, Paul
Franklin
Paul Franklin Bumpus
was born in
Maury
County and attended
Cumberland
University in
Lebanon. For many years, he lived on
Old Hillsboro Road in
Williamson
County. He was district attorney general in
Columbia, a lawyer in
Nashville, and a member of the staff of the Metro
Legal Department. He was the first attorney to be assigned on a regular basis
to the Metro Police Department. A friend of Edward Carmack’s
son, Ned, he undertook the biography of this important Tennessean.
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Burnett, Peter H. (1807–1895)
Peter Hardeman
Burnett was born in
Nashville. As a young child, he spent time on his
grandfather’s farm near Lewisburg Pike in
Williamson
County. He moved to
Missouri, from where he became leader of the
first wagon train on the Oregon
Trail in 1843.
He served in a judicial post in
Oregon and later became the first elected
American governor of
California. His autobiography, entitled Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer,
was published in New
York
in 1880.
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–Reasons Why We Should Believe in God, Love
God, and Obey God, 1884
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–Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer,
1880
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Burrus,
Barbara
(1931- )
Barbara Burrus
was born in
Columbia,
Tennessee, but moved to
Franklin with her family while in her early
teens. She attended
Peabody Demonstration
School and
Martin
College and graduated from
Peabody
College. Early in her marriage to Dr. George Burrus, she taught school in
Nashville, where they have lived for many years
while rearing their large family. Her book recounts her experiences as helpmate
to a heart surgeon who has taken leave from his practice to serve as a medical
missionary in
Belgium,
India, and the
Congo. They have returned to
Africa yearly to take supplies and to serve in
a hospital they built in memory of two of their children who have died.
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