Phyllis Biffle-Elmore is the passionate and brilliant author of "Quilt of Souls", a memoir with extrordinary potraits of black women born before and after the civil war.
At the age of four, Phyllis was sent to Alabama to be raised by her grandmother, Lula Horn, who made beautiful quilts out of the clothing of her loved ones. Each strip of fabric tells the story of the wearer's life and death. Lula shared these most tragic, sometimes witty, but always moving tales with little Phyllis as she sewed their clothes into a quilt that threaded broken lives back together. Phyllis now shares these profound stories with the world as grandmother Lula taught them to her.