FALL COMMUNITY READ, 2007

The Grove Hill Arts Council has selected Ferrol Sams' book, Run with the Horseman, for the 2007 Community Read.  Ferrol Sams (born 1922) is the best-selling author of eight books. He is also a retired physician, humorist, and storyteller. His first book, Run with the Horseman (1984) is part of his trilogy of novels in which an eccentric and quixotic hero, Porter Osborne Jr., mirrors Sams’ own Georgia boyhood in Fayette County. Both Sams and his wife, Helen, practiced medicine in Fayette County from 1951 until they retired in 2006. In 1987, they established the Fayette Medical Center.

The Grove Hill Book Club has also selected Run with the Horseman as its August read and copies of the book will be placed in all area libraries.  

For more information about the author and his books, please visit:

 http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1237

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrol_Sams