num_pages: 268
description: Will Campbells award-winning book shares two interrelated stories. One is of his youth in rural Mississippi and his devotion to his brother whose life ended in seeming tragedy. The other tells of his ordination at age 17 and gradual realization that civil rightsfor blacks, for women, for gays was an essential part of a ministry that has not yet ended.
language: English
title: Brother to a Dragonfly
titlecomplete: Brother to a Dragonfly
genres: Politics, Southern, Biography, School, Race, Nonfiction, History, Christianity, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 552
awards: awardedAt: 252489600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Biography and Autobiography, awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Lillian Smith Book Award
publisher: Continuum