Description Ruby Pruett vividly recounts the compelling story of her life, focusing on her youth, and highlights later events. e., earn an MA, become a public speaker, teacher, and writer..
Her inclination to learn, desire to excel, and her capacity to endure the toilsome work demanded of her, in addition to the encouragement and love of her godly mother, enabled her to overcome all difficulties, reach her goals, i.
About the Author Ruby Pruett was born into a large, extended and impoverished family and an alcoholic father.
Her triumphs over such odds are instructive and entertaining and should inspire all ages past childhood, particularly teenagers who deal with difficulties.
Her articles have appeared in the Tennessee Genealogical Magazine, A Page in Time, and Christian Woman.
She composed proprietary materials for Bell South and served as a freelance reporter for the Birmingham News.
Belatedly, she earned an MA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and became a public speaker, teacher, and writer.
She garnered many honors during her life: class valedictorian, girl with the sweetest face in Tennessee, Miss Obion, state winner in Heritage Arts, county winner in dressmaking and in spelling, and winner of a national collegiate speaking contest.
These traits helped her to become self-sufficient at age thirteen.
She absorbed her mother\'s advice to trust God, work hard, get an education, never accept charity, and "be somebody" (her mother\'s exact words).
At age five, Ruby became a constant and diligent worker and was soon a champion in the field and at home.
It was largely her godly mother\'s love, teaching, and examples in word and deed that she commanded the strength to rise above her circumstances.
A native Tennessean, she grew up during the Great Depression, enduring poverty and abuse from an alcoholic father and others in her large extended family.
She commands readers\' attention and sympathy with her poignant narrative.
Description Ruby Pruett vividly recounts the compelling story of her life, focusing on her youth, and highlights later events
