Babs Deal (1929-2004) was born in Scottsboro, Alabama. She received a B.A. from the University of Alabama in 1952 where she studied under Hudson Strode, a well-known author and professor of creative writing. In 1952 she married Borden Deal, a fellow writer. They lived and worked in Tuscaloosa, Scottsboro, and Sarasota.
Beginning in 1959, and through the 1970s, Deal published more than a dozen novels, including Acres of Afternoon (1959), Fancy’s Knell (1966), which was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1968), which was adapted for television, The Reason for Roses (1974), and her last piece of fiction, Friendships, Secrets and Lies (1979). Deal died in Montgomery, Alabama.
