Author: Mary Ellen Pethel, Don Cusic
Summary from Goodreads:
Sarah Colley Cannon, better known as her stage character, Minnie Pearl, was born in Hickman County, Tennessee, in 1912. After graduating from Ward-Belmont, now Belmont University, she joined a touring theater company and produced and directed plays and musicals throughout the Southeast. In 1940 an executive for WSM radio in Nashville saw her Minni Pearl character and invited her to appear on the Grand Ole Opry. Cannon would play Minnie Pearl on both the Opry stage and the television show Hee Haw for the next fifty years.
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