Orr

The author of six books, Elaine Neil Orr was born and grew up among the forests and rivers of Southwestern Nigeria. Her explorations of home and exile and spiritual connection are rooted in those rich formative years. She comes to the American South by way of that other South in West Africa. After devoting herself […]
To Blurb or Not to Blurb? Elaine Neil Orr

Author Elaine Neil Orr (Author of A Different Sun: A Novel of Africa and Gods of Noonday: A White Girl’s African Life) offered us this guest post on blurbing, and other thoughts of generosity after your book comes out. Thank you, Elaine! Subsequent to my first book’s appearance (a memoir), I began to receive requests for […]