Margaret Verble

Margaret Verble's first novel, Maud's Line, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2016. Her second novel, Cherokee America, published in 2019, and was named by the New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year and won the Spur Award for Best Traditional Western. Cherokee America is a prequel to Maud's Line, and Margaret, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, set both novels on and around her family’s Indian allotment land near Ft. Gibson, OK. Margaret's third novel, When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky, released in Oct. of 2021, is set in1926 in the old Glendale Park Zoo in Nashville, TN. Its heroine is a Wild West show performer on loan from the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch in Oklahoma. The book was picked by Booklist as one of the 10 Best Adult Novels of the Year and is a popular Common Read choice. Her fourth novel, Stealing, released in Feb. of 2023, has been widely praised by, among others, the New York Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Christian Science Monitor, and Publisher's Weekly.