Marshall Chapman has had a colorful and tumultuous life as a singer and songwriter in Nashville, and now has begun sharing her stories with readers in her memoir Goodbye Little Rock and Roller and in her latest book They Came To Nashville. Her stories are filled with Nashville legends like Willie Neslon and Kris Kristofferson. Don spoke with Marshall at the Pebble Hill Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities on the campus of Auburn University.

One of America's best loved novelists, Mark Childress has written a shelf of books, including A World Made of Fire, V for Victor, One Mississippi, Georgia Bottoms, and his most widely known Crazy in Alabama. This year's recipient of the Harper Lee Award winner joined Don Noble at the annual Alabama Writer Symposium in Monroeville, Alabama.

When Margaret Wrinkle of Birmingham, who had already produced a documentary Broken Ground about racial strife in her hometown and learned that her ancestors had owned slaves, she need to know more. Her extensive research finally took the shape of a novel, Wash, a powerful and trouble novel set on a cotton plantation in Tennessee in the 1820s. Don spoke with Margaret the the Alabama Public Television studios.

The past few years have seen the rise of the graphic novel, but Lila Quintero Weaver is a pioneer - the first to write and draw a graphic memoir. Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White tells the story of Weaver's childhood in Marion, Alabama during the turbulent years of civil rights demonstrations and integration

Don's guest this week is author Koethi Zan, former New York city entertainment lawyer, was determined to try her hand at fiction. Her first novel, The Never List, is the chilling story of a young woman's abduction, her time chained in a basement and her final escape told in the first person. The novel conveyed to readers the terror of the experience and the post-traumatic effects that were so difficult to deal with.

Today Don sits with Margaret Verble, author of Two Feathers Fell From The Sky, a novel about a horse-diver named Two Feathers, a Cherokee, and involves ghosts, graves and animals with spirits.

Don sits down with Irish poet Joan McBreen to talk about her work, including "The White Page" and "The Watchful Heart" at the Alabama Booksmith in Homewood, AL.

Author Keith Thompson sits with Don Noble to discuss his book about the days of pirates and loot.

Homer Hickam joins Don Noble to talk about his career in writing.

UAB professor William Carter talks about his book "Marcel Proust: A Life."