“Papaw’s distant cousin—also Jim Vance—married into the Hatfield family and joined a group of former Confederate soldiers and ...

Miraculously, Papaw survived the episode with only mild burns. On page 23, Vance wrote that "Mamaw" and "Papaw" are what he calls his grandparents: Other people have all kinds of names for their ...

Times were so bad in the 1940s that Vance’s grandparents, Bonnie and James, whom he calls Mamaw and Papaw, left Jackson for ...

Vance also discusses this story in a filmed interview, where he said a family member told him he got one detail wrong: the type of fluid his grandmother used to set his grandfather on fire. Here's the ...