Meet and listen to Sharyn McCrumb at Eagle Eye as she signs her new book.
Sharyn McCrumb is an award-winning Southern writer, best known for her Appalachian "Ballad" novels, including the New York Times best sellers The Ballad of Frankie Silver and She Walks These Hills, and for St. Dale, winner of a Library of Virginia Award and featured at the National Festival of the Book.
Her current novel, The Ballad of Tom Dooley, (Thomas Dunne, 2011), examines the true story behind the celebrated folk song made famous by the Kingston Trio. It is the story of a tragedy in the North Carolina mountains following the Civil War. Impoverished Confederate veteran Tom Dula (Dooley) was convicted of murdering his lover, Laura Foster. In May 1868, he was hanged for the crime.
