Lydia Peelle

Lydia Peelle (Grad ’06) has published her second book, The Midnight Cool (Harper, January 2017). The novel, set in Tennessee and Virginia in 1917, is about men who supplied mules to the Army for fighting in Europe in World War I—a lesser known aspect of the role of the American South in the war. Ms. Peelle hopes to bring these stories to light through her writing.