Four years after he quit college he began to learn how to write in reaction against newspaper jargon; he began his first novel at 35. He has published two novels, Lightwood and River Rogue, the latter written while he held a Guggenheim Fellowship. These novels, like This is Adam and the one he is now at work on, are set in south Georgia, where he finds the quiet of piney woods and the aching distance of the marshes on Buttermilk Sound the most moving of all nature.
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THE LIGHTWOOD HISTORY COLLECTION:
Book 1: The Lightwood Chronicles: Murder and Greed in the Piney Woods of South Georgia, 1869-1923, being the true story of Brainard Cheney’s novel, Lightwood
Book 2: Lightwood, a novel of the piney woods by Brainard Cheney
Book 3: River Rogue, a novel of romance and adventure on the Altamaha River by Brainard Cheney
Book 4: This is Adam, a novel of grace and pride by Brainard Cheney
Book 5: Devil’s Elbow, a novel of love and redemption by Brainard Cheney
Book 6: They Don’t Make People Like They Used To: Olden times in Telfair County, Georgia by Addie Garrison Briggs
Brainard Cheney published four novels in his lifetime (1900-1990). All of his works were set in his native area of south Georgia, much of it using autobiographical events. Please refer to the work, The Lightwood Chronicles, for more information on Mr. Cheney, his life and his works. His fourth novel, Devil’s Elbow, picks up in time a decade after This is Adam ends.
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