The book gets its title from something Atticus Finch was told in his childhood when his father gave him a gun.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

In eighteen-twenty-three, at the age of eighteen, Smith claimed that an Angel told him of a golden book.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

He thought that the book might help him move on from always thinking about his family's past.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

The book opens with the young man, Francis Marion Tarwater, refusing to do the two things his grandfather had ordered him to do.

VOA: special.2010.12.26

In nineteen forty-three, a publisher asked him to write a book giving advice to parents.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

She has just read his book and discovered something surprising about him.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Dennis Hoffman wrote about him in his book "Legends of the Ball."

VOA: special.2011.01.09

This gave him an idea for his next book.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

Ridgway says working on the book challenged him intellectually and emotionally.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21