Jonathan Odell writes on how the TV show “Bonanza” gave him a different outlook on segregation in Mississippi.
Jonathan Odell
Jonathan Odell, native of Laurel, Miss., is the author of three novels. His first novel, “The View from Delphi” (Macadam Cage 2004), deals with the struggle for equality in pre-civil rights Mississippi. In 2012, Random House published his second novel, “The Healing,” set on a slave plantation in the Mississippi Delta, which explores the power of a story to free a people. Odell’s third novel, “Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League,” was published in 2015 (Maiden Lane Press). His essays and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, Commonweal, Publishers Weekly, Baltimore Review, Utne Reader and others. He currently lives in Minneapolis, Minn., with his husband.
