In the most deeply personal writing of his long career, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the life and work of his wife Nancy, who died of leukemia in 2018. Partly the memoir of a vibrant marriage, Live As If... tells the story of Nancy's work as a public school teacher, principal, and professor during a time of education under siege. "It's a story of what can go right," Gaillard says.

Frye Gaillard is Writer in Residence at the University of South Alabama. He is author of the award-winning titles, A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s; The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina; and Watermelon Wine: The Spirit of Country Music.