Donald McCaig

Donald McCaig (born 1940 in Butte, Montana) is an American novelist, poet and essayist. He lives on a sheep farm in Western Virginia.

His 1998 novel set in Civil War Virginia won the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction.^[1] It also won a John Eston Cooke Award and Boyd Military Novel Award.^{[citation needed]}

His most recent work is Rhett Butler's People, a sequel to Gone with the Wind authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate.^[2][3]

References

1. ^ "Michael Shaara Prize". Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. http://www.gettysburg.edu/civilwar/prizes_andscholarships/michael_shaaraprize/. Retrieved 9 August 2011. 
2. ^ Weeks, Linton (2007-11-07). "The Rhett Stuff: Virginia Writer Took on Tara". The Washington Post: pp. C01. 
3. ^ Patrick, Bethanne (2007-11-07). "Gone but Not Forgotten: Rhett Butler's People". The Washington Post: pp. C08. 

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