For today’s post, I’m interviewing Jenny Wingfield, an accomplished screenwriter (The Man in the Moon, starring Reese Witherspoon) and a novelist whose first book, The Homecoming of Samuel Lake, is ...

Jenny Wingfield tells of hardworking, well-intentioned people, circa 1956, and the drama and dismay that befall them. The Moses family have long since stopped farming and turned their house into a ...

Gritty and funny - Jenny Wingfield's debut novel charms Nicky Pellegrino. There's a certain genre of novel set in the American deep south in which the characters are named things like Willadee, ...

Set in 1950s Arkansas, screenwriter Wingfield's restrained, sometimes dark debut novel tells the story of preacher Samuel Lake and his family and how they are all affected by their move back to his ...

Jenny Wingfield wrote the screenplays for the 1991 film The Man in the Moon (Sam Waterston, Reese Witherspoon) and 2002's The Outsider (Naomi Watts, Tim Daly). Fans of those movies will be happy to ...

Both book club reads were worth reading this month, but I did enjoy one over the other. Our in-person group read the Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar and our online group read The Homecoming ...