Books by Roxanne Orgill

Roxanne Orgill is an award-winning writer on music, whose reviews and feature articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. She is also the author of Shout, Sister, Shout: Top Ten Girl Singers Who Shaped a Century and If Only I Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong. About Mahalia she says, "What interested me was how a woman with the modest aim of doing the 'Lord's business', which to her meant singing gospel songs, could end up with such a wide reach. Mahalia moved deeply not only her people - Baptist church folk - but other Christians, and Jews, and even people of no faith. I wanted to understand how she did that." Roxanne Orgill lives with her husband and two young children in New Jersey.