Betsy Thorpe studied folklore and ethnic anthropology at the University of Oregon and is a scholar of early twentieth-century Southern culture and history. She studied the art of writing creative nonfiction in online classes offered by the Creative Nonfiction Foundation of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Betsy works as a legal research assistant and lives with her daughter and three granddaughters in Nashville, Tennessee.
Thorpe is a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society, the Bellevue Harpeth Historical Association, and Nashville Historic, Inc. She is an honorary member of the Nashville Chattanooga Preservation Society and of the Beta Chapter of Delta Gamma Society International. She is also belongs to the Nashville Writers Meet-up Group. The author is most proud of her awards in 2011, 2012, and again in 2017 of a private, individual Writer's Room at the Nashville Public Library, an honor bestowed by its Board upon a select number of authors.
When Betsy is not writing or day dreaming about the past, she and her three granddaughters enjoy watching primetime soaps and crime shows on TV, bicycle riding, cooking Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals and taking Greyhound Bus and Amtrak Train adventures together.
The Day The Whistles Cried: The Great Cornfield Meet at Dutchman's Curve, is the author’s first book. She is now writing her second book Trouble on Happy Hill: an Observation Worthwhile. Both are true stories, inspired by historic Tennessee State Supreme Court decisions.
Thorpe is a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society, the Bellevue Harpeth Historical Association, and Nashville Historic, Inc. She is an honorary member of the Nashville Chattanooga Preservation Society and of the Beta Chapter of Delta Gamma Society International. She is also belongs to the Nashville Writers Meet-up Group. The author is most proud of her awards in 2011, 2012, and again in 2017 of a private, individual Writer's Room at the Nashville Public Library, an honor bestowed by its Board upon a select number of authors.
When Betsy is not writing or day dreaming about the past, she and her three granddaughters enjoy watching primetime soaps and crime shows on TV, bicycle riding, cooking Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals and taking Greyhound Bus and Amtrak Train adventures together.
The Day The Whistles Cried: The Great Cornfield Meet at Dutchman's Curve, is the author’s first book. She is now writing her second book Trouble on Happy Hill: an Observation Worthwhile. Both are true stories, inspired by historic Tennessee State Supreme Court decisions.