About
Lynda Rutledge is the bestselling author of West with Giraffes, selected by Library of Congress–affiliated Texas Center for the Book as their 2023 Great Read. She’s also the author of Faith Bass Darling’s Last Garage Sale, winner of the 2013 Writers League of Texas Fiction Award and adapted into the major 2018 French film La dernière folie de Claire Darling starring Catherine Deneuve. Her most recent work, Mockingbird Summer was published in 2024. Her fiction has won awards and residencies from Atlantic Center for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council, and Ragdale Foundation, among many others. She holds a BA and MA in American literature and an MFA in creative writing. In her eclectic career before becoming a novelist, she was a copywriter, freelance journalist, book collaborator, and travel writer.
Featured Work
Mockingbird Summer
What was it like to grow up in the early Sixties?
What was it like to be a woman before Women's Rights?
....In 1964, the year 13-year-old Kate "Corky" Corcoran read the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, a small miracle of a summer happened in her tiny, segregated town because of a pastor feud, a sit-in, a softball game, and an older girl named America who Corky saw run as fast at Olympian Wilma Rudolph, the fastest woman in the world....
Other Works
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West with Giraffes
2021
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Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale
2012
