Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All is a 1989 first novel by Allan Gurganus[1] which was on the New York Times Best Seller list for eight months.

It won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,[2] was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and sold over four million copies.

Her story encompasses everything from the death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home — complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper."

The book was made into a television miniseries, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, broadcast on CBS in 1994.

[5] The book was adapted by Martin Tahse into a one-woman play, which was developed by the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego.