Tony Earley, author of the best selling novel, “Jim the Boy,” which tells  what happened to the 10-year old boy growing up in the  North Carolina foothills, and its sequel,. Tony Earley web page: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/english/tony_earley

Read the first chapter at: http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/books_9780316199070_ChapterExcerpt(1).htm