March 26 will bring a special dual-author event to the Pass Christian Public Library. Beginning at 6 p.m., two Mississippi authors, Gerry Wilson and Margaret McMullan, will have a conversation about Wilson’s debut novel, That Pinson Girl, and McMullan’s novel, How I Found the Strong. Both are historical fiction books that are set in Mississippi.
Wilson’s novel resonates with issues of race and class. The novel pits a white teenage mother and a biracial sharecropper against prejudice in Mississippi in World War I. That Pinson Girl unfolds in lyrical, unflinching prose, engaging the timeless issues of racism, sexism and poverty.
McMullan is the recipient of a National Endowment of Arts Fellowship in literature and a Fulbright to teach and research in Hungary. She is the author of nine award-winning books. Her most book is a memoir based on her research in Hungary, Where the Angels Lived: One Family’s Story of Loss, Exile and Return. Her award-winning novel of the Civil War, How I Found the Strong, is twenty years old this year.
The event is free and open to the public. Pass Christian Books will have copies of the author’s books available for purchase. For more information, call 228-452-4596.
