Josephine Humphreys anchors her best-selling novels firmly in the South, and scholars identify her interest in place, family, race, and history as Southern concerns; but hers is not the "Christ-haunted" South of Flannery O'Connor, and her characters...

Josephine Humphreys is representative of Southern women authors' ability to embrace postmodern ideas in literature of the South. Southern literature has been historically male and full of agrarian nostalgia. As such, many Southern people and ideas have been excluded. By adopting a feminist approach...

Josephine B. Humphrey, 92, a Vienna resident and a member of the Humane Society USA, died of dehydration March 7 at Mount Vernon Nursing Center. She lived at Merrifield Village in Vienna for more than 35 years. She was known in her neighborhood...