Author
Adele Myers grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and has a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her debut novel, THE TOBACCO WIVES, is based on her childhood in North Carolina tobacco country. Her grandmother was a hairdresser for the wives of wealthy, tobacco magnates in Winston-Salem in the 1940s, and tales of these women inspired THE TOBACCO WIVES.
Adele and I discuss The Tobacco Wives, the dangers the tobacco companies knowingly ignored and covered up, her stunning cover, the role marketing and advertising plays in shaping public perception, her favorite character to write in the book, and much …