Sherry Laymon, Author

July 29, 2010 • 8:29 pm 0

PFEIFFER COUNTRY: THE TENANT FARMS AND BUSINESS ACTIVITIES OF PAUL PFEIFFER IN CLAY COUNTY, ARKANSAS 1902-1954

Pfeiffer Country is a non-fiction examination of a southern Twentieth Century tenant farming operation in which the farmers actually prospered. Contrary to most tenant farm operators in the Mississippi Delta, Paul Pfeiffer–Ernest Hemingway’s father-in-law, ran a profitable tenant system during the most trying years of the Depression. Laymon’s research and interviews with former Pfeiffer tenants provide many rich and refreshing details about a successful counter-model farming operation that greatlycontrasted similar systems in the Mississippi Delta.

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Sherry Laymon, AUTHOR

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Sherry Laymon is a native Arkansan whose books and articles focus on Arkansas, Southern, and American history. She earned a doctorate degree from Arkansas State University in 2005. Her dissertation, PFEIFFER COUNTRY: THE TENANT FARMS AND BUSINESS ACTIVITIES OF PAUL PFEIFFER IN CLAY COUNTY, ARKANSAS 1902-1954, was published by Butler Center Books, (Little Rock) in April 2009. Her articles, JOHN MCCLELLAN AND THE ARKANSAS RIVER NAVIGATION PROJECT and ARKANSAS'S DARK AGES: THE STRUGGLE TO ELECTRIFY ARKANSAS won the Arkansas Historical Association's Violet Gingles Award in 2010 and 2011, respectively. She has other works in the publication process.

PFEIFFER COUNTRY

Pfeiffer Country is a non-fiction examination of a southern Twentieth Century tenant farming operation in which the farmers actually prospered. Contrary to most tenant farm operators in the Mississippi Delta, Paul Pfeiffer--Ernest Hemingway's father-in-law, ran a profitable tenant system during the most trying years of the Depression. Laymon's research and interviews with former Pfeiffer tenants provide many rich and refreshing details about a successful counter-model farming operation that greatlycontrasted similar systems in the Mississippi Delta.

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