Mark Murphy is a native of Savannah, Georgia. He's worked as a fast-food worker, marine biologist, orderly, ordained minister, and gastroenterologist, his current "day job." When he's not healing the sick, he writes anything he can-newspaper columns, short stories, magazine articles, and textbook chapters.
Rose Dhu is his third novel.
At The Nerd Daily Murphy tagged seven novels in the Southern Gothic tradition that inspired hi. One entry on the list:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)Read about another entry on the list.
This Pulitzer Prize winner, loosely based upon Lee’s observation of her own family and an event that occurred in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama in 1936,involves elements of racial injustice in the postwar South. Told through the eyes of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, who is six years old at the beginning of the book, it relates Scout’s relationship with both her brother Jem and a neighbor child named “Dill” Harris, who visits his aunt’s home every summer. The three children are both fascinated by and terrified of a reclusive neighbor, Arthur “Boo” Radley, who has not been seen for years. All of which is placed in the foreground of Jem and Scout’s father, Atticus, representing Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a young white woman. While innocent, Robinson is remanded to prison and dies while trying to escape and the Finch family is left to deal with the brutal aftershocks of the trial.
This book is one of the most widely read novels of the 20th Century. Interestingly, the character of Dill Harris was based on the author Truman Capote, a childhood friend of Lee’s.
To Kill a Mockingbird made Vaseem Khan's top five list of small town America thrillers, Mimi Herman's list of five titles with strong, spirited Southern ladies, Debbie Babitt's list of eight coming-of-age thrillers, Allison Pataki's top ten list of father figures in literature, Bonnie Kistler's list of four classic fictional trials that subverted the truth, Kathy Bates's ten desert island books list, Lavie Tidhar's list of five fantastical heroines in great children’s books, Sarah Ward's ten top list of brothers and sisters in fiction, Katy Guest's list of six top books for shy readers, Jeff Somers's top ten list of fictional characters based on actual people, Carol Wall's list of five books that changed her, John Bardinelli's list of five authors who became famous after publishing a single novel and never published another one, Ellie Irving's top ten list of quiet heroes and heroines, a list of five books that changed Richelle Mead, Robert Williams's top ten list of loners in fiction, Alyssa Bereznak's top ten list of literary heroes with weird names, Louise Doughty's top ten list of courtroom dramas, Hanna McGrath's top fifteen list of epic epigraphs, the Telegraph's list of ten great meals in literature, Nicole Hill's list of fourteen characters their creators should have spared, Isla Blair's six best books list, Lauren Passell's list of ten pairs of books made better when read together, Charlie Fletcher's top ten list of adventure classics, Sheila Bair's 6 favorite books list, Kathryn Erskine's top ten list of first person narratives, Julia Donaldson's six best books list, TIME magazine's top 10 list of books you were forced to read in school, John Mullan's list of ten of the best lawyers in literature, John Cusack's list of books that made a difference to him, Lisa Scottoline's top ten list of books about justice, and Luke Leitch's list of ten literary one-hit wonders. It is one of Sanjeev Bhaskar's six best books and one of Alexandra Styron's five best stories of fathers and daughters.
--Marshal Zeringue
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