A role model for those of us living in the age of Trump -- Dorothy Allison Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Anne Royall was an American original, a stranger to fear who defied 19th century skeptics as a prolific literary force, satirist and social critic.
Drawing from Royall's largely overlooked literary works, Jeff Biggers's Trials of a Scold is a groundbreaking and passionate biography of Anne Royall, America's f.