Hammon, Ninie

Ninie Hammon spent a quarter of a century as a journalist before she tried her hand at fiction and discovered it was a whole lot more fun to make up the facts than to report them. Since then, she has written a biography, God Said Yes, and seven novels: Sudan, The Memory Closet, Home Grown, Five Days in May, Black Sunshine and The Last Safe Place. Each is a fast-paced, riveting tale peopled with gloriously complex characters who drag the reader into the story to live it with them. A native of Muleshoe, Texas, Ninie now lives a mildly vagabond life. She and her husband, Tom, travel between their...