Water from the Well;
New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [6], 232, [8] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. The chapters are: Red Sky at Night; Red Sky at Morning; Ransom, Passing; Baby, Leaving; The Choosing of Little Jewel; and The Salvation of Cora Emery McRae. Myra Dell McLarey was born on September 5, 1942, in Okay, Arkansas. McLarey earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Southern State College in Magnolia in 1964 and a master’s degree in history from Central Missouri State in Warrensburg in 1965. She later studied at the Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, and did doctoral work in African-American history and the history of the West at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville before completing course work for a doctorate in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1995. McLarey served on the faculty of the Tennessee Governor’s Academy for Writing Teachers (1987–1995) and taught writing at Harvard (1991–2000). She has also taught at Emerson University, the University of New Hampshire, and the New England Conservatory of Music. She has served on the faculty of the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College. McLarey is the co-author of Moncrief, My Journey to the NBA, written with Arkansas basketball legend Sidney Moncrief. Her novel, The Road to Eden’s Ridge, was co-authored with Linda Weeks under the pen name M. L. Rose. Her novel, The Last Will and Testament of Rosetta Sugars Tramble, was nominated for the Lillian Smith Book Award, given to recognize books on issues of racial and social justice. More