christy book series by catherine marshall

Her parents are initially reluctant, but she persists and soon makes the trip to the remote area. While attending a revival meeting, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleson, the daughter of a well-to-do family in Asheville, NC, is fascinated when she listens to the founder of an Appalachian mission program as he describes the work his group is doing and the needs of the Cutter Gap community and finds herself drawn to the idea of volunteering for the mission to be a teacher to the needy Cutter Gap students. Set in the fictional Appalachian village of Cutter Gap, Tennessee, in 1912, the novel explores faith and mountain traditions such as moonshining, folk beliefs, and folk medicine. Her best-known book, Christy (1967), is a historical fiction novel that was inspired by the story of the journey made by her own mother, Leonora Wood, a young, single adult to the mountains to teach the impoverished children of the Appalachian region. Marshall ended up as the author or editor of over thirty books, which have sold over sixteen million copies. In 1959 Catherine married Leonard LeSourd, who worked as the editor of Guideposts Magazine for 28 years. Its nationwide success (it was made into a motion picture, released in 1955) induced her to continue writing. The resulting book, A Man Called Peter was first issued in 1951. Partly as a response to considerable public affection for her husband’s memory and partly to create a means of supporting herself, Marshall wrote her husband’s life story as she saw it. Her husband died in 1949 of a heart attack, leaving her to care for their 9-year-old son, Peter John Marshall, who would later also become a minister and author. The couple moved to Washington, DC, where her husband served as minister of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and Chaplain of the United States Senate. In 1936 she graduated from Agnes Scott College and married Peter Marshall.

Born in Johnson City, TN, the daughter of the John Ambrose and Leonora Whitaker Wood, Catherine was raised in Keyser, WV, where her father served as minister of a local Presbyterian Church.

Catherine Wood Marshall (1914-1983) was an American author of nonfiction, inspirational, and fiction works and the wife of well-known minister Peter Marshall.

Christy (published in 1967 by McGraw Hill). Language level: 1 (nothing objectionable)įor more information e-mail Catherine. Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, reprinted in 1976

Christy book series by catherine marshall