"Ellen Gray Massey is a Missouri treasure. She has spent a large part of her life writing about life, teaching about life, speaking about life." Bob Priddy, author, historian, and news editor at MissouriNet radio. Massey has published numerous articles, short stories, essays, a two-act musical play, eleven non-fiction books and sixteen novels. In 1995 she was inducted into the first Writers Hall of Fame. She has received awards from the Missouri Writers Guild and is a three-time Spur Award Finalist from Western Writers of America. Her specialty is the Ozarks and western Missouri, where her fam...