Margaret Jones Bolsterli (October 10, 1931 in Watson, Arkansas) is an American author, editor, and professor emerita of English.
[1] Margaret Jones grew up, with her sister Pauline and her brothers Jodie and Bob, in the Mississippi flood plain of Desha County, Arkansas.
There her father owned about 200 acres, which were worked by tenant farmers using mules, until the changes brought by mechanization and WW II.
[6] After retiring in 1993 as professor emerita, she lived and worked on her farm near Wesley, Arkansas.
[3][7] In addition to her books and articles, Margaret Jones Bolsterli wrote the libretto for an opera During Wind and Rain, which premiered in April 2017 at the Argenta Community Theater in North Little Rock.