Donald McCaig is the award-winning author of CANAAN as well as JACOB'S LADDER, designated “the best Civil War novel ever written” by the Virginia Quarterly. It won the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Library of Virginia Award for Fiction. He was chosen by the Margaret Mitchell estate to write RHETT BUTLER'S PEOPLE, an authorized sequel to GONE WITH THE WIND. He lives on a sheep farm in the mountains near Williamsville, Virginia, where he writes fiction, essays and poetry, and trains and trials sheep dogs.

Books by Donald McCaig

Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind

by Donald McCaig - Fiction, Historical Fiction

On the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue, an island consumed by the flames of revolution, a senseless attack leaves only one survivor --- an infant girl. What follows is the sweeping tale of Ruth’s life as shaped by her strong-willed mistress and other larger-than-life personalities she encounters in the South. Here is a remarkable story of fortitude, heartbreak and indomitable will --- and a tale that will forever illuminate your reading of GONE WITH THE WIND.

Rhett Butler’s People

by Donald McCaig - Fiction