About the author: Erlick has been widely published as a travel writer and cultural journalist. Her second novel, "The Poppy Fields," is due this summer.

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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Dolen Perkins-Valdez about her novel "Happy Land." The book is inspired by the true story of a secret community of formerly enslaved people in the Appalachians.

Free cemetery talks and tours encouraging people to discover the heritage on their doorstep have been launched by the ...

To Kill a Mockingbird’ Set in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel is a ...