Houses of Cleburne County
“Grapes of Wrath meets American Graffiti”
The son of an Arkansas farm family, William Carroll Moore offers a firsthand account of how the county’s agrarian communities met the social and economic challenges of changing times, from the Depression era through WWII. He started his education in a one-room schoolhouse, experienced his family’s struggle to survive, and at the age of ten, migrated with his family to California’s Central Valley, where they would face new challenges. His stories draw the reader into life in the South with insightful humor and anecdotes.
About
William Carroll Moore was born in Cleburne County, Arkansas, and moved with his family to the Central Valley of California at the age of ten. He holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree in urban planning from Athens Technological Institute in Greece. He now lives in the Napa Valley of California
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