Author and storyteller Janice Harrington (1956- ) was born in Vernon, Lamar County, and much of her work draws on rural life in Alabama. She has written many award-winning children's books as well as several biographies.
Janice Harrington
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Courtesy of the University of Illinois; photograph by L. Brian Stauffer
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