The Barbara Koton-Thorn Story

About the Book

Barbara Koton is ten when her daddy dies. The next day after the funeral, at her sister's house, she is sexually molested by her brother-in-law. Ten days later she returns home to a drunkard's party including her mom and a strange man who will stay for 15 years of fighting, and smashing windows and coffee tables. Thirty years later she wins the national Sargent Shriver Award among Community Action Agencies for 1998. In her own words, this is the true story of surviving that god-awful childhood to become a respected director of an agency that empowers the helpless and enables the poor.

About the Author

Foster Mullenax has two published novels and a file full of letters from readers and newspaper reviewers praising his storytelling acumen. Sugarlands and Capasheea's Leadmine are available through major book dealers. Mullenax earned his MS in Journalism from West Virginia University and did postgraduate studies in human relations/human development at Colorado State University. He has had an extensive career in radio/television communications; traveled and/or worked in every state throughout the continental United States including Hawaii; made several trips to Brazil, Guatamala and Canada; and for twenty seven years has been official announcer and grandstand emcee at the State Fair of West Virginia.