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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1999
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 16 titles



  • Hiram, a former slave turned farmer, asks a banker for a loan so he can make a journey. Hiram returns from his trip with an unusual gift for the banker -- a bridal wreath bush, which prompts the telling of a story about a heartrending separation and,...





  • A man's lifelong love of books and reading overcomes the hurt of a childhood humiliation in this touching true tale related by Alabama storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham on the occasion of the Selma Public Library's 100th anniversary. As a child in t...



  • She is a living icon of the family storytelling renaissance in American. And to hear her tell it, Kathryn Tucker Windham owes it all to her father, the small-town banker, school board chairman, and Sunday school superintendent who always came home wi...



  • This is the first anthology of the author's own favorite ghost stories from the highly successful Jeffrey series of books that began in 1969 with "13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey." Hundreds of thousands of these books have been sold. The present volume...



  • This is the first anthology of the author’s own favorite ghost stories from the highly successful Jeffrey series of books that began in 1969 with 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. Hundreds of thousands of these books have been sold. The present vo...



  • With sprightly humor and a lifetime spent observing Southern culture, beloved storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham shares memories of her childhood in Thomasville, Alabama. She affectionately recounts stories about family members, friends, and favorite...



  • This slender book, the last of twenty-nine written by Kathryn Tucker Windham over her long and productive life, will be an exquisitely bittersweet read for the many fans of the late storyteller and author from Selma, Alabama. In She, which Windham wa...



  • Jeffrey was the resident apparition in the Selma, Alabama, home of nationally-known folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham and the inspiration for Windham's best-selling collection of macabre tales that reveal two hundred years of Alabama's ghostly secret...






  • Petrifying the Peach State, hosts of haints have beset the state of Georgia throughout its storied history. In Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey, best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham, along with her trusty spectral companion Jeffrey, intr...



  • Petrifying the Peach State, hosts of haints have beset the state of Georgia throughout its storied history. In Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey , best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham, along with her trusty spectral companion Jeffrey, in...



  • For as long as Mississippi has existed (and then some), flocks of phantoms have haunted the mortal inhabitants of the Magnolia State. In Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey, best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham, along with her trusty sp...



  • In Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey, beloved and best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham presents a spine-tingling collection of Tennessee’s eeriest ghost tales. Accompanied by her faithful companion, Jeffrey, a friendly spirit who resi...



  • A deluxe, commemorative edition of a beloved collection of ghostly stories from famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham’s home state of AlabamaAccompanied by her faithful companion, Jeffrey, a friendly spirit who resided in her ...



  • A commemorative facsimile edition of the beloved and best-selling second book in famed national folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham’s southern ghosts series Jeffrey was the resident apparition in the Selma, Alabama, home of nationally-known folkl...



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    In these stories of her mother, her Aunt Bet, and other women who influenced her, author and storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham reveals the complexity of Southern women in the days before feminism entered the common vocabulary. A legacy of independen...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kathryn Tucker Windham has published 16 books.

Kathryn Tucker Windham does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Jeffrey Introduces Thirteen More Southern Ghosts, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Kathryn Tucker Windham, The Bridal Wreath Bush, was published in September 1999.

No. Kathryn Tucker Windham does not write books in series.