The Antic Creedoolies

About the Book

The Antic Creedoolies IS about love. Louis Custis Lee, a very wise black man descended from Jeffersons and Custises of Virginia, raises seven white and part-white children as siblings in Christian County from 1920 to post-Vietnam. It is a desperate time calling for intelligence, humor, and a willingness to seize any advantage in every situation. Through three teenage pregnancies, a murder, a depression, and three wars he holds them together with care and tough love. They become war heroes, farmers, Peace Corps volunteers, businessmen--successful, loving adults with a sense of family. Like him.

About the Author

“In 1905, when cross-faith marriages were rare, my mother, daughter of a Baptist minister, married the grandson of a Catholic doctor. He’d finished and enlistment in the US Cavalry below Canada. I was the 8th of 9 children. We all went to one-room schools, helped on the family farm. I served 3 years in WWII, started college in San Francisco, finished a BA at UKC, an Med at KU, a PhD at UMKC, taught in France, Panama, Australia. Married a lovely Polish girl: we had 3 children, 6 bright grandchildren. I wrote Antic Creedoolies and Sallad Dayes. Never lived in Amherst.”