She was born and raised in Scottsboro, Alabama, where she worked as a substitute teacher. She joined the US Army and worked as a clerk-typist in Washington, D.C. After her discharge from the army, she attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and received her BA in 1952. While at Alabama, she met and married writer Borden Deal. The Deals moved to Scottsboro in 1954 but returned to Tuscaloosa in the late 1950s.
Babs Deal published her first novel, Acres of Afternoon, in 1959. In 1961, her short story “Make My Death Bed” was televised as part of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents series.
In 1964, the he Deals moved to Sarasota, Fla., in 1964 and became involved with the writing community there. Babs Deal published twelve novels between 1959 and 1979. Her short stories were published in national magazines such as McCall’s and Redbook. In 1979, Friendships, Secrets, and Lies, a movie version of her novel The Walls Came Tumbling Down, was broadcast on NBC-TV.
The Deals divorced in 1975, and Babs spent her later years living in Gulf Shores, Ala. After becoming seriously ill in the winter of 2004, she was hospitalized in Montgomery, where she died.
Here is a list of her novels.
Deal, Babs H. Acres of Afternoon.New York: D. McKay Co., 1959.
Deal, Babs H. It's Always Three O'Clock.New York: D. McKay Co., 1961. Rpt. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990.
Deal, Babs H. The Grail.New York: D. McKay Co., 1964.
Deal, Babs H. Fancy's Knell.Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966.
Deal, Babs H. The Walls Came Tumbling Down.Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1968. Rpt. as Friendships, Secrets and Lies. New York: Falcon Crest, 1979.
Deal, Babs H. High Lonesome World: The Death and Life of a Country Music Singer.Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1969.
Deal, Babs H. The Crystal Mouse.Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1973.
∼Author. Wrote more than a dozen novels over a 20-year period. Among the books that she wrote are "Fancy's Knell." and "The Walls Came Tumbling Down," which was the basis for a made-for-television movie.
She was born and raised in Scottsboro, Alabama, where she worked as a substitute teacher. She joined the US Army and worked as a clerk-typist in Washington, D.C. After her discharge from the army, she attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and received her BA in 1952. While at Alabama, she met and married writer Borden Deal. The Deals moved to Scottsboro in 1954 but returned to Tuscaloosa in the late 1950s.
Babs Deal published her first novel, Acres of Afternoon, in 1959. In 1961, her short story “Make My Death Bed” was televised as part of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents series.
In 1964, the he Deals moved to Sarasota, Fla., in 1964 and became involved with the writing community there. Babs Deal published twelve novels between 1959 and 1979. Her short stories were published in national magazines such as McCall’s and Redbook. In 1979, Friendships, Secrets, and Lies, a movie version of her novel The Walls Came Tumbling Down, was broadcast on NBC-TV.
The Deals divorced in 1975, and Babs spent her later years living in Gulf Shores, Ala. After becoming seriously ill in the winter of 2004, she was hospitalized in Montgomery, where she died.
Here is a list of her novels.
Deal, Babs H. Acres of Afternoon.New York: D. McKay Co., 1959.
Deal, Babs H. It's Always Three O'Clock.New York: D. McKay Co., 1961. Rpt. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990.
Deal, Babs H. The Grail.New York: D. McKay Co., 1964.
Deal, Babs H. Fancy's Knell.Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966.
Deal, Babs H. The Walls Came Tumbling Down.Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1968. Rpt. as Friendships, Secrets and Lies. New York: Falcon Crest, 1979.
Deal, Babs H. High Lonesome World: The Death and Life of a Country Music Singer.Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1969.
Deal, Babs H. The Crystal Mouse.Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1973.
∼Author. Wrote more than a dozen novels over a 20-year period. Among the books that she wrote are "Fancy's Knell." and "The Walls Came Tumbling Down," which was the basis for a made-for-television movie.
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