Beverly Lowry, Author . Knopf $27.50 (496p) ISBN 978-0-679-44642-2
Sarah Breedlove was born in 1867 on the Louisiana plantation where her parents had been slaves, was motherless by age seven, married and a mother by 14, and a widow at 20. After leaving the plantation and working as a Mississippi washerwoman, she...
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Beverly Lowry, Author . Doubleday $26 (418p) ISBN 978-0-385-50291-7
No escaped slave's story grips the American imagination as deeply as Harriet Tubman's, with the melodrama and near mythic grandeur of her frequent returns to slave territory to rescue her family members and scores of others. Since Tubman (182
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Beverly Lowry, Author Warner Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-36510-9
Novelist Lowry gives a nebulous portrayal of the trial and conviction of pickaxe murderer Karla Faye Tucker, but sheds light on the life of this woman as she waits on death row. (Jan.)
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Beverly Lowry, Author Viking Books $16.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-670-81413-8
This new novel by the author of Daddy's Girl will add to her reputation as an original, talented writer; it is not, however, an entirely successful effort. Recalled from New York to her father's deathbed in Texas, Pauline searches for a reason to...
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Beverly Lowry, Author Viking Books $17.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-82245-4
Lowry's fourth novel features well-educated, attractive Hale and Diana Caldwell, who live in the Texas hill country where Hale breeds and trains racing quarterhorses and Diana gardens assiduously. Dynamic and well-organized as the Caldwells appear...
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Beverly Lowry, Author Penguin Books $6.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-009654-5
``This new novel by the author of Daddy's Girl will add to her reputation as an original, talented writer; it is not, however, an entirely successful effort,'' wrote PW of this tale of an actress whose father's death leaves her emotionally paralyzed
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Beverly Lowry, Author Penguin Books $8.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-14-014772-8
Hale and Diana Caldwell lead outwardly enviable lives in the Texas hill country but secretly face shortcomings in marriage and as parents. According to PW , ``There are good sketches of minor characters, lifelike dialogue and a gripping conclusion--b
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Beverly Lowry, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (245p) ISBN 978-0-679-41184-0
Shortly after a hit-and-run driver killed her son Peter in 1984, Texas novelist Lowry ( Breaking Gentle ) began visiting Karla Faye Tucker, a death-row prisoner in Mountain View, Tex., who was convicted with her boyfriend for the 1983 pickaxe...
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Beverly Lowry, Author Knopf Publishing Group $21 (219p) ISBN 978-0-679-42939-5
``Traditionally, the way to get by in the Delta was to drink hard and hold on to your eccentricities,'' comments one character in Lowry's haunting new novel. The residents of Eunola, Miss., are jolted from their daily coping mechanisms by the return
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Beverly Lowry. Knopf, $26.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-307-59411-2
In this taut true-crime account, Texas-based author Lowry (Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life) explores the 1991 murder of four teenage girls in an Austin frozen yogurt shop and the botched investigation of four suspects railroaded into giving false...
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Beverly Lowry. Knopf, $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-65723-1
In this thought-provoking memoir, Lowry (Who Killed These Girls? The Unsolved Murders That Rocked a Texas Town) weaves her story of growing up in mid-20th-century Mississippi with the story of a white socialite’s murder and its aftermath. In 1948,...
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