Facts: Robert Hicks wrote The Widow of the South, which is set on the Carnton plantation in Franklin, Tennessee, south of Nashville. That book, about the Civil War’s bloody Battle of Franklin, Confederate general John Bell Hood, and the battle’s aftermath, debuted at #6 in 2005 on The New York Times best-seller list. A year later, the trade paperback edition became a Times best-seller too. And on October 4th, the mass-market edition will make it to that list as well. All this as Hicks’ new novel, A Separate Country (Grand Central Publishing) hits bookstores. Hicks is signing and discussing A Separate Country at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Memphis on Monday, September 28th, at 6 p.m.
