Aileen Henderson

"Aileen Kilgore Henderson was born in 1921 in a mining camp that no longer exists. After her father lost his job, the family moved to a small farm in nearby Brookwood, Alabama, where they struggled to make ends meet, cobbling together odd jobs and working the land by hand. When The Wolf Camped at Our Door recounts the difficulties and joys the Kilgore family and their neighbors shared in this poor but close-knit rural community during the Great Depression....