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Jun 12, 2007 · In Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life, Beverly Lowry goes beyond the familiar tales to create a portrait of Tubman in lively imagined vignettes that, as Lowry writes, “catch her on the fly” and portray her life as she herself might have presented it. Lowry offers readers an intimate look at Tubman’s early life firsthand: her birth as Araminta Ross in 1822 in Dorchester, Maryland; the harsh treatment she experienced growing up—including being struck with a two-pound iron when she was ...
Aug 31, 2022 · In ‘Deer Creek Drive,’ Beverly Lowry takes a new look at a crime that has haunted her since childhood. Review by Suzanne Berne. August 31, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EDT. Ruth Dickins in a photo from ...
Beverly Lowry was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She grew up in Greenville, Mississippi. The extensive list of her work includes short stories, essays, book reviews and feature articles in such periodicals as The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Oxford American and the Boston Globe.
About Beverly Lowry. BEVERLY LOWRY was born in Memphis and grew up in Greenville, Mississippi. The author of six novels and four previous works of nonfiction, her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Vanity Fair,… More about Beverly Lowry
On August 10, 1938, Beverly Lowry was born in Memphis, Tennessee, but she grew up in Greenville, Mississippi. Her parents are David Leonard and Dora Fey. Lowry attended Ole Miss for two years (1956-58) before graduating from Memphis State University in 1960 with a B.A. in drama and speech and English literature.
Beverly Lowry is the author of Who Killed These Girls? (3.40 avg rating, 2490 ratings, 344 reviews, published 2016), Deer Creek Drive (3.43 avg rating, 6...
“Beverly Lowry’s Deer Creek Drive stands out for its richly layered narrative, one that weaves a tale based in the Mississippi Delta’s past and connects it with the author’s own personal history on the same landscape. This is a vivid portrait of a world of privilege and willful blindness that would be recognizable to Willie Morris, since this story reveals the way bigotry, as well as a violent crime, echoes across time and memory.”
