Sue Ellen Frye grew up in Concord, North Carolina where she went to church Homecoming Sundays. She attended St. Andrews Presbyterian College and graduated from the University of No...view moreSue Ellen Frye grew up in Concord, North Carolina where she went to church Homecoming Sundays. She attended St. Andrews Presbyterian College and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After years of teaching in the public schools of Maryland and North Carolina, she retired. Her first novel Ladies of the Draw-In Room was published in 2004 and received critical acclaim for its portrait of cotton mill women like the ones the author knew during her childhood. She lives in Hickory, North Carolina.
Praise for Ladies of the Draw-In Room
These are stories you will want to read and reread because they so aptly capture the time and place of a cotton mill town in 1953.
Jim Rumley
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