About the Author

Nancy A. Williams is director of the Arkansas Biography Project and is currently working on a biography of Alfred Edgar Smith.

Jeannie M. Whayne is associate professor and chair of the history department at the University of Arkansas and has authored A New Plantation South: Land, Labor and Federal Favor in Twentieth Century Arkansas (1996, University Press of Virginia).

Reviews

"She considered herself a balladeer and educator, not an entertainer. She abhorred the idea of 'performing' a song: 'A singer should not get in the way of the song but just stand back and present it.'"--Patricia Laster on Almeda Riddle, balladeer and folk song collector