Tall: Love and Journalism in a Six-foot World

by Nancy Stancill

Overview

Nancy Stancill shot up to six feet as a shy young teenager and was alternately bullied and ignored because of her height. This wasn't uncommon for girls growing up in the 1960s, when men considered tall women undesirable. She details how one woman had bone cut from her thighs to lose a couple of inches of height and others took hormones as preteens to stunt their growth. Stancill's life began changing at the University of North Carolina and she came into her own as an investigative reporter in Houston and Charlotte, NC. After a failed engagement and another serious boyfriend, she meets the man of her dreams, who is two inches shorter. She marries him anyway.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684335909
Publisher:	Black Rose Writing
Publication date:	11/25/2020
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Nancy Stancill is the author of two mystery novels, Saving Texas and Winning Texas, and a retired investigative journalist with the Houston Chronicle and Charlotte (NC) Observer. She's a journalism graduate of the University of North Carolina and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Tampa. She lives in Charlotte with her husband.

Editorial Reviews

"Tall reminds us that what we perceive as a defect, may be an asset in disguise." -Pam Kelley, author of Money Rock: A Family's Story of Cocaine, Race and Ambition in the New South

"A hearty salute to Stancill for her frank narrative of walking tall in the world. Walk on, I say, walk on!" -Donald Morrill, author of Beaut

"...her authentic voice shines as we move from one fascinating, lively, and often humorous anecdote to the next..." -Donna Stramella, author of Coffee Killed My Mother

"Stancill gets it just right. Tall is a glorious book, fully alive." -Judy Goldman, author of Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap

"This is the real tall girl triumph. Indeed, it's an every girl triumph." -Catherine Moore, author of Borrowings of the Shan Van Vocht

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