RICH: The late Florence King was a uniquely Southern writer

Ronda Rich

On a Sunday morning, tucked into bed on the island of St. Simons, the place where I, at the age of 13, accepted the calling that had haunted me since I was 4 – that of becoming a writer – Tink brought me a copy of the New York Times and coffee loaded with cream.

There on the front page of this revered Yankee newspaper, I discovered the obituary of perhaps the first Southern woman to write about the region’s people and draw attention to the differences between us and them – them being anyone else in the world who doesn’t possess an ounce of Southern blood or the common sense to understand we are to be celebrated, not mocked.

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