Memoirist & Novelist
Memoirs
NBC’s Today show
“Laugh outloud funny!”
Chicago Tribune
“Listen to Wade Rouse — which you most assuredly should — especially if you value laughter and wisdom.”
Writer’s Digest
“The #2 Writer, Dead or Alive, We’d Like to Have Drinks With”
USA Today
“Wise, witty, wicked.”
Washington Post
“An impressive voice [and] original writer.”
Library Journal
“David Sedaris meets Dave Barry.”
Internationally Bestselling Novelist
PEN NAME: VIOLA SHIPMAN
Fiction
Booklist
“For readers of Mary Alice Monroe.”
Mary Alice Monroe
“Like a true friendship, The Clover Girls is a novel you will forever savor and treasure.”
Dorothea Benton Frank
“Every now and then an important new voice in fiction arrives. Viola Shipman is that voice.”
Garth Stein
“Graceful, touching, moving.”
Library Journal
“Shipman’s charming stories of remembering those who came before you are just what the world needs right now.”
Adriana Trigiani
“A rare jewel that will be passed down from one generation to the next.”
Good Housekeeping
“Delightful!”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Magical … poignant.”
Nancy Thayer
“The Clover Girls is Viola Shipman’s most beautiful novel yet, and her most important.”
Richard Paul Evans
“A touching tribute.”
Debbie Macomber
“Utterly charming.”