| Vital Statistics | December 4, 1921 – March 14, 2001 |
| Pseudonyms | None found |
| Genres | Cozy Mystery, Literary Fiction, Poetry |
| Awards | Agatha Award: Murder on a Girls’ Night Out (Southern Sisters #1) Pulitzer Prize Nominee: Some of it is True Alabama State Poet 1994 |
| Books | Dreamer, Dreaming Me (1980) – debut novel Wild Goose Chase (1982) Spraying Under the Bed for Wolves (1985) Some of it is True (1993) Southern Sisters Mysteries (1996-2001) This One and Magic Life: A Novel of a Southern Family (1999) The Map That Lies Between Us (2000) |
| Personal | Graduated from Stanford University; married to Earl George for 53 years; three children, six grandchildren |