Review of The Mother Teresa of Tallahassee’s autobiography

My review of Rev. Bernyce Clausell’s autobiography No Time to Die appears in the Tallahassee Democrat’s TLH Magazine on 7 April 2013. Clausell is called the “Mother Teresa of Tallahassee” for good reason. I write in part,


“But Clausell’s story is so much more than an autobiography; it’s a ground-level window into nearly a century of turbulence, tragedy and triumph. While Clausell’s mark has been indelibly engraved into Tallahassee’s contemporary history, her journey from her birth in Thomson, Georgia, to the Florida panhandle, where she raised her family and built a community, reveals a cultural tapestry that would justify this book as required reading in every middle school in the country.”
Author: SR Staley
SR Staley has one more than 11 literary awards for his fiction and nonfiction writing. He is on the full-time faculty of the College and Social Sciences and Public Policy at Florida State University as well as a film critic and research fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California. His award-winning Pirate of Panther Bay series (syppublishing.com) has won awards in historical fiction, mainstream & literary fiction, young adult fiction, and reached the finals in women's fiction. His most recent book is "The Beatles and Economics: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Making of a Cultural Revolution" due out in April 2020 (Routledge).