Donald McCaig

Rhett Butler's People

Authorized by the Margaret Mitchell Estate, the first-ever prequel to one of the best-selling novels of all time, Gone With the Wind, recounts the life of Mammy, one of literature's greatest supporting characters, from her days as a slave girl to the outbreak of the Civil War. By the best-selling author of Rhett Butler's People. 250,000 first printing.

The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind

Ruth's Journey

Lauded by the "Virginia Quarterly" as "the best Civil War novel ever written, " "Jacob's Ladder" resonates with all the bitter glory and deep human shame of America's greatest war.

Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War

A Useful Dog

our travels, trials, adventures, and epiphanies

Mr. and Mrs. Dog

In the tradition of Wendell Berry and John McPhee, Donald McCraig writes with a powerful sense of place about the history of Virginia's Highland County. This entertaining book is composed in part of essays he has written for various publications and for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered".

An American Homeplace

A Novel

The Butte Polka

"A bred-in-the-bones storyteller." —Geraldine Brooks Canaan fills a vast canvas. Its points of reference are Richmond in the throes of Reconstruction; the trading floors of Wall Street; a Virginia plantation; and the Great Plains, where the splendidly arrogant George Custer—Yellowhair—rides to his fate against Sitting Bull’s warriors. This is the story of America over twenty years of its most turbulent history. The characters are black, white, and red, ex-Union and ex-Confederate; and the principal narrator is a Santee woman She Goes Before who marries an ex-slave. Through her eyes we witness the hanging of her father by whites in the mass execution of 1863, Red Cloud’s banquet with President Grant, and that final confrontation on the bluffs above the Little Bighorn.

Donald McCaig

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