Donald McCaig

About The Author

Donald McCaig (1940–2018) was the award-winning author of Canaan as well as Jacob’s Ladder, designated “the best Civil War novel ever written” by the Virginia Quarterly. It won the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Library of Virginia Award for Fiction. He was chosen by the Margaret Mitchell estate to write Rhett Butler’s People, an authorized sequel to Gone with the Wind, as well as the authorized prequel, Ruth's Journey.

Books by Donald McCaig

Ruth's Journey

A Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind

By Donald McCaig
From the national bestselling author of Rhett Butler’s People, the “exquisitely imagined, deeply researched” (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March) authorized prequel to Gone with the Wind following the epic story of one of literature’s greatest ...
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