Ellen Gray Massey
Ellen Gray Massey was an American writer and schoolteacher.
Massey was raised near Nevada, Missouri, and spent some time in Washington, D.C. She received a bachelor's degree in English at the University of Maryland before moving back to Missouri, settling in the Lebanon area. She oversaw a class of high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors who produced Bittersweet, the Ozark Quarterly magazine.
Massey also gave hundreds of talks about the Ozarks.
Works
Massey wrote many books, including the following titles:Papa's Gold Footprints in the Ozarks: A Memoir Morning in Nicodemus Her Enemies Blue and Gray New Hope Family Fun and Games: A Hundred Year Tradition The Burnt District Borderland-Homecoming Music of My Soul And Tyler, Too? Home is the Heart- ''A Candle Within Her Soul''