![]() “Mildred and I worked closely together on the book,” she said. Taylor selected Dial as her publisher, and Hayes became editor of the debut. ![]() “I had recently arrived at Dial as senior editor, and Mildred interviewed Phyllis Fogelman and me, along with editors at other houses, who were also interested in acquiring the manuscript,” Hayes recalled. The novel was edited by Regina Hayes, editor-at-large at Viking, who first worked with Taylor more than four decades ago, after the author won the African-American segment of a writing contest sponsored by the Council on Interracial Books, for her manuscript that became Song of the Trees. In All the Days Past, All the Days to Come, which will have a first printing of 100,000 copies, Cassie Logan is now a young woman, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 1960s, home to Mississippi to join the voter registration drive. ![]() ![]() The sequence, which centers on this African-American Mississippi family and chronicles the civil rights movement, began in 1975 with Song of the Trees, a novella illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, and continued with the Newbery-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976), Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1981), The Road to Memphis (1990), and a prequel, The Land (2001). Taylor’s Logan Family saga, whose cover is revealed here for the first time. ![]() Viking has announced the January 2020 publication of All the Days Past, All the Days to Come, the fifth and final novel in Mildred D. ![]()
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