Bailey White

Bailey White
Born (1950-05-31) May 31, 1950 (age 76)
Thomasville, Georgia
EducationFlorida State University
OccupationsAuthor and radio commentator
Parent(s)Robb White, Rosalie White

June Bailey White (born May 31, 1950) is an American author and a regular radio commentator for the National Public Radio program All Things Considered.

Biography

June Bailey White was born in Thomasville, Georgia, May 31, 1950. She is the daughter of Robb White, who was a fiction writer, and Rosalie White (née Mason), a farmer. White grew up with her mother in Georgia, while her father lived and wrote in Hollywood. Her mother, and her mother's South Georgian eccentricity, have been central to her writing. Her mother died in 1994.

After graduating from Florida State University in 1973, Bailey White moved to California, where she married her father's best friend. After 11 years of marriage, she returned to Georgia where she taught, for more than twenty years, at the school she attended as a girl. Her friend, Daniel Pinkwater, convinced her to submit some commentaries to NPR. Her gravelly voice and gift for portraying the unusual personalities of people in the rural South with gentle wit proved very popular with her NPR audience. In 1999, she left teaching to concentrate on her writing.

White has published four books: Mama Makes Up Her Mind; Sleeping at the Starlite Motel; Quite a Year for Plums; and, in 2008, Nothing with Strings.

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Bailey White". National Public Radio. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
  2. 1 2 Peter Applebome (July 15, 1993). "At Home With: Bailey White; Turning Life With Mama Into Front-Porch Radio". The New York Times. Retrieved August 16, 2009.
  3. ↑ Linda Wertheimer (March 18, 1994). "Rosalie M. White Dies at Age 80". National Public Radio – via HighBeam Research. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); |url-access= requires |url= (help)CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. 1 2 Charlotte Pfeiffer (July 11, 2002). "Bailey White". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on April 27, 2007. Retrieved December 19, 2006.
  5. ↑ "Honorees - Bailey White". University of Georgia Libraries. Archived from the original on April 30, 2009. Retrieved August 16, 2009.