Publisher's Synopsis
Hallie Erminie Rives (May 2, 1874 - August 16, 1956) was a best-selling popular novelist. Rives wrote her first novel at age eight, though her writing was not encouraged by her parents. Her first novel was published when she was eighteen. In her novels she addressed politics between the Northern and Southern United States, issues of race, and sex, causing great debate among critics. Among them was Smoking Flax (1897), a novel controversial even at the time, which takes a favorable position on lynching. The novel is about an African American man accused of raping and murdering a white woman who was lynched after the governor commuted his sentence to life. Many of her novels were bestsellers. Other books she wrote were better received by critics than Smoking Flax. In this book: Satan Sanderson The Kingdom of Slender Swords The Long Lane's Turning The Valiants of Virginia Tales from Dickens
