Her religion was kindness (Image via: here, CC BY-SA 4.0)
In this update, Brooks’ words; almost oracular, mystical —
“Her truth-telling was relentless,” says Angela Jackson. But she didn’t sacrifice her craft to tell those truths. “She insisted upon an elegance of speech, an elegance of writing — a heightened language that pierced through to people to engage the souls of readers.”*
