Silver EM winner to read at Square Books
March 19, 2008 by Samir Husni
Rheta Grimsley Johnson, syndicated newspaper columnist and our 1992 Silver Em winner, will be at Square Books Thursday.
Here’s some info from her publicist:
Rheta Grimsley Johnson will be at Square Books on Thursday, March 20
at 5pm. She’s there to celebrate publication of her new memoir, Poor
Man’s Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana. An engaging
speaker, she’ll talk about the great adventure (houseboat included)
that stretched her understanding of Southern culture and the book
that emerged of it.Poor Man’s Provence is a memoir-cum-travelogue, written in the mode
of the best-selling book A Year in Provence. It’s about Rheta’s life
in Bayou country, and the people she’s met and friendships formed and
her understanding gained about Cajun history, culture, landscape and
food. She presently lives in Iuka, Mississippi, but several years ago
made a second home on a houseboat in Henderson, LA. The experience
pretty much sealed her love affair with all things Cajun.
