Eva Carpenter McCall is the granddaughter of the real-life Lucy Carpenter. Eva lived for nineteen years with her grandmother in Franklin, North Carolina. She has taken the many stories her grandmother told her and structured them into Edge of Heaven and Children of the Mountain to provide a sense of what family life was like in the mountains of northeast Georgia and Western North Carolina in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Eva graduated from Franklin High School, attended Pfeiffer College near Charlotte, North Carolina, and married George McCall, also of Franklin. They moved to Flint, Michigan, where George worked for General Motors and Eva became a beautician. In Michigan, Eva attended writing workshops at Oakland University and Mott Community College, and she belongs to several professional writers’ groups.
Although Eva had published short stories, inspirational material, and children’s stories, Edge of Heaven was her first full-length book, followed by its sequel, Children of the Mountain, and companion title Lucy’s Recipes for Mountain Living.
Now retired, Eva and her husband have returned to Franklin. The McCalls have three grown children and several grandchildren.
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