Frye Gaillard
Coming in November from Negative Capability Press Live As If … A Teacher’s Love Story by Frye Gaillard
In the most deeply personal writing of his long career, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the life and work of his wife Nancy, who died of leukemia in 2018. Partly the memoir of a vibrant marriage, Live As If… tells the story of Nancy’s work as a public school teacher, principal, and professor during a time of education under siege. “It’s a story of what can go right,” Gaillard says.
Patti Callahan Henry, best-selling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis, and winner of the Harper Lee Award, offers this assessment: “If a love had a voice and could tell us its story, it would be this one by Frye Gaillard. As Gaillard recounts the extraordinary life of his wife, Nancy, he honors her in revealing her heroism as a teacher, chronicling her resilience, and portraying the courage of her everyday choices and actions. In spirited and generous prose, Gaillard offers us a peek into a life so well-lived, a life so full of courage and generosity, that it changes us just by reading about her.”
Gaillard, former Southern Editor at the Charlotte Observer, is currently Writer in Residence at the University of South Alabama. He is a past winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Prize, and the Eugene Current-Garcia Award for literary scholarship.
Live As If… can be ordered through Amazon or Barnes & Noble online.
