Connie May Fowler

Connie May Fowler works across novels, memoir, essays, screenwriting, and poetry, often connecting family memory with the landscapes of Florida. The Problem with Murmur Lee follows a circle of women in the fictional coastal town of Tallulah as they reconsider the life of their absent friend and the stories they have told about her. Fowler's other novels include Sugar Cage, River of Hidden Dreams, Remembering Blue, Before Women Had Wings, and How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly. She adapted Before Women Had Wings for a television film produced for Oprah Winfrey. Her nonfiction includes When Katie Wakes and A Million Fragile Bones, which records her experience of environmental damage along the Gulf Coast. The Problem with Murmur Lee brings several recurring interests together: friendship among women, the persistence of place, competing memories, and the way a community reshapes a person's story after she is gone.