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Betty Smartt Carter

Betty Smartt Carter is a novelist from Leeds, Alabama. She recently published a memoir, Home Is Always the Place You Just Left (Paraclete).

To me, the best place...

October 17, 2005

I recently gave a seminar on memoir at a public library in Talladega, Alabama....

June 13, 2005

In the shadowy world of the mystery novel, nothing is ever quite what it appears to be...

October 18, 2004

Living in Alabama, I encounter a lot of intuitive spelling. I am no spelling snob....

August 9, 2003

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