pSince iSpencer's Mountaini I have followed Earl Hamner's career with much interest and much satisfaction, having picked a winner. b--Harper Lee, author of iTo Kill a MockingbirdibppEarl Hamner, one of America's best-loved storytellers, has never been the subject of a full-length study. iEarl Hamner From Walton's Mountain to Tomorrowi fills that gap.ppA native Virginian, Hamner once said, Even though families are said to be shattered these days, and God is said to be dead, if people can revisit the scenes and places where these values did exist, possibly they can come to believe in them again, or . . . to adapt some kind of belief in God, or faith in the family unit, or just getting home again. This vision of what makes for a whole life permeates all of Hamner's work. It is present in the novel iSpencer's Mountain, i upon whichi The Waltonsi was loosely based, and in his screenplays, such as the work he is perhaps most proud of, iCharlotte's Web.i It is even present in such unlikely pl