Description: Before It Was Legal is not a happily-ever-after story, but an honest portrayal of the love and hurt that any two people, not just a bi-racial couple, may encounter in an intimate relationship. It is the story of an independent white woman, a talented black man, and the times in which these two remarkable people lived.
Brief description: Nancy Werking Poling's motivation to write comes from a concern for women's struggles and triumphs. Growing up, she sensed a mystique surrounding her aunt's sister, a white woman who had married a black man and moved to Mexico. Years later, an eleven-day interview allowed Poling into the private realm of that marriage. Nancy Werking Poling and her husband live in the mountains of western North Carolina.