Bailey White
Bailey White | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 31, 1950 |
| Education | Florida State University |
| Occupations | Author and radio commentator |
| Parent(s) | Robb White, Rosalie White |
June Bailey White (born May 31, 1950) is an American author and a regular radio commentator for the National Public Radio program All Things Considered.
Biography
[edit]June Bailey White was born in Thomasville, Georgia, May 31, 1950. She is the daughter of Robb White, who was a fiction writer, and Rosalie White (née Mason), a farmer.[1] White grew up with her mother in Georgia, while her father lived and wrote in Hollywood. Her mother, and her mother's South Georgian eccentricity, have been central to her writing.[2] Her mother died in 1994.[3]
After graduating from Florida State University in 1973, Bailey White moved to California, where she married her father's best friend.[2] After 11 years of marriage, she returned to Georgia where she taught, for more than twenty years, at the school she attended as a girl.[4] Her friend, Daniel Pinkwater, convinced her to submit some commentaries to NPR. Her gravelly voice and gift for portraying the unusual personalities of people in the rural South with gentle wit proved very popular with her NPR audience.[4] In 1999, she left teaching to concentrate on her writing.
White has published four books: Mama Makes Up Her Mind; Sleeping at the Starlite Motel; Quite a Year for Plums; and, in 2008, Nothing with Strings.
Awards
[edit]- Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, inducted 2008[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Bailey White". National Public Radio. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
- 1 2 Peter Applebome (July 15, 1993). "At Home With: Bailey White; Turning Life With Mama Into Front-Porch Radio". The New York Times. Retrieved August 16, 2009.
- ↑ Linda Wertheimer (March 18, 1994). "Rosalie M. White Dies at Age 80". National Public Radio – via HighBeam Research.
{{cite web}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help);|url-access=requires|url=(help);|url=suppressed (help)CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - 1 2 Charlotte Pfeiffer (July 11, 2002). "Bailey White". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on April 27, 2007. Retrieved December 19, 2006.
- ↑ "Honorees - Bailey White". University of Georgia Libraries. Archived from the original on April 30, 2009. Retrieved August 16, 2009.
External links
[edit]- NPR, "What would they say in Birmingham?, November 23, 2006. Contains links to other Bailey White stories.
- Video Interview Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine given April 11, 2008 as part of Bailey White's induction into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.
- 1950 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American memoirists
- American radio journalists
- American women short story writers
- Florida State University alumni
- NPR people
- Novelists from Georgia (U.S. state)
- American women memoirists
- American women essayists
- 20th-century American women novelists
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 20th-century American essayists
- American women radio journalists
- 21st-century American women