The Capers Papers
The Capers Papers
At last it’s available again, and in paperback, the book that Charlotte Capers’ hosts of readers have been urging back into print. One of Mississippi’s most fascinating personalities and one of its absolutely best raconteurs, Capers can hold any reader or listener enthralled with her witty, delicious narratives. Here she focuses upon whatever seized her insights—mainly life in its ordinary gait—yet her reports of the smalltown scene are as alluring as the tales of Shaharazade.
These delightful essays, as Eudora Welty says in the foreword, “were written to amuse, and they abundantly do so.”
Charlotte Capers (1913–1996) was director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) from 1955 to 1969 and was the first woman to become the head of a state agency in Mississippi. Her tenure in various staff positions at MDAH spanned forty-five years (1938–1983).
