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Lila Hopkins grew up in New Mexico but for the past 11 years has lived in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. Weave Me A Song grew out of her love for the mountains and her admiration of the people she has met in Avery County.

Hopkins grew up in the home of a Baptist pastor and married a Baptist minister while she was still a college student at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. After graduation, she taught school in northern California while her husband continued his theological studies in Berkley, California.

The Hopkins moved to North Carolina in 1960 for Rev. Hopkins to intern at the Department of Pastoral Care at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. In 1961, he became chaplain at McCain Hospital, where he served for 29 years.

Lila taught school in Moore County for 13 years and the experience was the basis of her two award winning juvenile books, Eating Crow and Talking Turkey (1988 and 1990) Both books won the North Carolina Juvenile Literature Award.

The Hopkins have three sons and one daughter and seven grandchildren.

Weave Me A Song is her first adult novel. Strike A Golden Chord is her second from High Country Publishers. Mrs. Hopkins, a watercolorist, whose paintings are featured in the Graylight Gallery in Newland, painted the dust jackets and illustrated both novels. She is also the author of The Master Craftsman: Heartwarming Noval of Father-Son Relationships and the Incredible Gifts of Love.

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