The True Story of Manse Jolly, Part II: As Told by the Hon. A.W. Fries

(The True Story of Manse Jolly, Part I) is honest and powerful and never less than utterly convincing. A really first-rate historical novel dense with the details of life, teeming with living people ? more real than history, as good fiction tends to be.-Author Jack Matthews, Ohio University "Those who are interested in Civil War history, and they are legion, will find this book a fascinating and easy read."-Tony Kiss, Asheville, N.C., Citizen-Times

Steve Biondo graduated in journalism from Ohio University and holds an M.A. in English from Virginia Tech. An award-winning newspaperman since 1977, his articles, stories and poems have also appeared in Blue Ridge Country, Clemson World, Intro 5, the Laurel Review, Presbyterians Today, Prickly Pear, TimeLapse, Anderson College Today, Carolina Living, Reader?s Digest, Camp Chase Gazette and Metro magazine. He is a winner of the 2004 S.C. Fiction Project.He and his wife, Judith, live with their two sons in Anderson, S.C.