Whose novels are set in the deep South, Mameve Medwed or Carson McCullers?
Mameve Medwed Mameve Medwed is an American novelist. Born and raised in Bangor, Maine, she received her B.A. with honors from Simmons College and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of "Mail", "Host Family", "The End of an Error", "How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life" (for which she received a 2007 Massachusetts Book Awards Fiction Honor), and "Of Men and Their Mothers".
Emily Matchar Emily Matchar (born 1982) is an American journalist and author. Originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, she graduated from Harvard University in 2004. Her work has appeared in "The Atlantic", "Salon", "The Washington Post", "Time", "The New Republic", "Gourmet", and "Outside", among others. Her non-fiction book, "Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity" was a critical exploration of the cultural phenomenon of "new domesticity," the re-embrace of old-fashioned domestic arts and practices from knitting to canning to backyard chicken-raising. It was published by Simon & Schuster in 2013 and received favorable reviews from "The New Yorker", "The New Republic", and "The Washington Post", among many others, and was given 3.5 out of 4 stars by "People Magazine". She has made numerous appearances on TV and radio, including The Colbert Report, Good Morning America, MSNBC's The Cycle, NPR, and the BBC.