In this searching account, memoirist Jones (Bearwallow) delves into the salacious diaries of his 19th-century ancestor, a white Southern farmer named William Thomas Prestwood, and attempts to piece ...

Jeremy Jones is a non-fiction writer and professor of English at Western Carolina University. His new book, Cipher: Decoding My Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret Diaries, is out September 16, 2025. It ...