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EARL HAMNER is best known as the creator and producer of the Emmy Award–winning series The Waltons. The producer of Falcon Crest and other television series, he has also written for The Twilight Zone, CBS Playhouse, and Theater Guild on the Air. His seven best-selling books include Spencer’s Mountain, The Homecoming, You Can’t Get There from Here, and The Avocado Drive Zoo. He lives in Studio City, California. RALPH E. GIFFIN is president of Blue Ridge Publications in Ocean Pines, Maryland, and the director of The Waltons Museum in Schuyler, Virginia.