Barbara Tunnell Anderson

The author was born Barbara Madison Tunnell in Mansfield, Massachusetts, the daughter of a minister who moved frequently. The years she and her family spent in small towns of the Deep South became the basis for her fictionalized accounts of race relations and tolerance. Anderson graduated from Smith College and moved to Louisville in 1926, where she wrote advertising copy for the Chambers Agency, with offices in the Starks Building. In 1931 she married Dwight Anderson, dean of the University of Louisville School of Music. Her best-known novel, The Days Grow Cold, was a Literary Guild selection in 1941 and was followed by Southbound, which was published in England in 1949. Anderson also wrote articles on historic homes and composed poetry, both of which were published in popular magazines.

(Adapted from "The Encyclopedia of Louisville")