Biography:

Teacher; children’s author. Born– April 8, 1928, Ozark. Parents– James P. and Merle Tilley. Married– James Yancey Carroll, September 16, 1950.  Children– Two. Education– Randolph-Macon College, A.B., 1949.  Taught in the public schools of Enterprise. Had stories published in Jack and Jill, Together, and National Scholastic. Honors– Southern Writers Award for Juvenile Literature, 1961.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History and This Is Alabama.

Publication(s):

This is Alabama. Austin, Tex.; Steck-Vaughn Co., 1981.