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Bailey White

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in Thomasville, GA, The United States

January 01, 1950

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Bailey White was born in 1950 in Thomasville, Ga. She still lives in the same house in which she grew up, on one of the large tracts of virgin longleaf pine woods. Her father, Robb White, was a fiction writer and later a television and movie script writer. Her mother, Rosalie White, was a farmer, and worked for many years as the executive director of the local Red Cross Chapter. She has one brother, who is a carpenter and boat builder, and one sister, who is a bureaucrat. White graduated from Florida State University in 1973, and has taken a break from teaching first grade to pursue writing full-time. She is the author of Sleeping at the Starlite Motel, Mama Makes Up Her Mind, and Quite a Year for Plums.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 9,585 ratings · 1,041 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living 3.96 avg rating — 4,965 ratings — published 1993 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quite a Year for Plums 3.24 avg rating — 2,110 ratings — published 1998 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: and Other Adventures on the Way Back Home 3.91 avg rating — 1,733 ratings — published 1995 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing with Strings: NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories 3.42 avg rating — 509 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Among the Mushrooms 4.24 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Interesting Life: Selections from Mama Makes Up Her Mind 4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ostrich Farmer and Other Stories 4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Bailey White Thanksgiving - Selected Stories from NPR's Bailey White 4.40 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Native Air 4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Parrot and Other Stories 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I'm tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I'm going camping.”
― Bailey White, Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living

tags: camping, family, libertines

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“When Mama starts to move across a room, people pay attention. You can never be sure she's not going to grab you by the top of the head to steady herself. And she's pretty free with that walking stick, too.”
― Bailey White, Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living

tags: aging, humor

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“It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into the shadows. I could hear a thud as they hit the floor joists, then a scuttling sound, then, worst of all, the silence of spiders.”
― Bailey White, Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living

tags: humor, spiders

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The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

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Desperation Road, by Michael Farris Smith

12 votes 18.2%

The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had, by Kristin Levine

11 votes 16.7%

Quite a Year for Plums, by Bailey White

9 votes 13.6%

Above the Waterfall, by Ron Rash

9 votes 13.6%

Hard Cash Valley, by Brian Panowich

6 votes 9.1%

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