[1] White grew up with her mother in Georgia, while her father lived and wrote in Hollywood.
[3] After graduating from Florida State University in 1973, Bailey White moved to California, where she married her father's best friend.
[4] Her friend, Daniel Pinkwater, convinced her to submit some commentaries to NPR.
Her gravelly voice and gift for portraying the unusual personalities of people in the rural South with gentle wit proved very popular with her NPR audience.
White has published four books: Mama Makes Up Her Mind; Sleeping at the Starlite Motel; Quite a Year for Plums; and, in 2008, Nothing with Strings.