Author Spotlight | Margaret Verble
Channel: Ann Arbor District Library
Date: 15/01/2024

Join Lucy as she shines a spotlight on the works of a single author. This month she looks at the novels of Margaret Verble.

Margaret Verble is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a member of a large Cherokee family that has, through generations, made many contributions to the tribe’s history and survival. 

She is the author of 4 novels. Margaret's first novel, Maud's Line, was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2016. Her second novel, Cherokee America, was listed by the New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year for 2019 and won the Spur Award for Best Western. She lives in Lexington, Kentucky.