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Darnell
Arnoult was born in Martinsville,
Virginia in 1955 to a Baptist beautician and a Catholic
architect. Both southerners. She married young, had two children
and divorced at age twenty-five.
She
remained single for nineteen years working as many jobs as anyone
could imagine. From delivering newspapers to cleaning houses, to
helping counsel prisoners, she spent years gathering a lot of
good material for writing, but that the time it was simply life.
She worked her way through college, earning a Bachelor of Arts in
American Studies with a emphasis on Southern Folklore at the
University of North Carolina
in Chapel Hill. She went on to earn a Master of Arts degree in
Creative Writing from North
Carolina State University.
In 2000,
she remarried and moved to middle
Tennessee where, at the encouragement of her husband, began
writing full time. What Travels with Us, a collection of
poems was her first publication. Sufficient Grave is her
first novel published in June of 2006.
Arnoult
lives in Brush Creek, Tennessee.
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