Billingsley native and current Prattville resident Nancy Bone Goff comes from a long line of storytellers.

“My family loved to tell stories,” Goff said. “It seems like my family always had a way of telling things a certain way that made it seem more interesting.”

Goff combined her love of storytelling with memories of her past to create stories for both magazines and other publications including three books with a fourth one to be released later this year.

Goff will speak March 24 at the Chilton-Clanton Public Library for a book lecture at 2 p.m. about her second published book, “A One Armed Boy in a Two-Arm World” about her brother, D.M. Bone.

The book was originally published in 2010 and tells the story of Bone’s life during the Great Depression and losing his right arm from Osteomyelitis, inflammation of the lining around the bone.

“My family were sharecroppers, and we did not have a lot of money,” Goff said. “For my parents to hear that their son would lose his right arm was devastating.”

Goff said Bone didn’t let the challenge of losing his arm affect him and went on to become a pitcher for four years during the late 1940s at Billingsley High School.

“During his four years at Billingsley, he didn’t lose a game,” Goff said. “He really showed everyone that perseverance can certainly outdo anything if you just keep at it.”

Goff said the book focuses on uneducated, poor farm families during a time when neighbors helped each other during times of need.

When Goff submitted several feature stories for a magazine, she eventually wrote an in-depth piece about her brother that readers from the community enjoyed.

“I kept hearing from people that I should write a book so I started taking notes when talking to D.M. and recalled stories my mother used to tell as well as other stories my family knew,” Goff said. “The book covers a lot of things including a lot of family stories and how my sister contracted polio and my older brother who often broke his bones. My father died when I was 5 which is where the book ends, but people have told me since it was published that they just really enjoyed the stories.”

Since 2010, Bone passed away but Goff said his story has touched many lives.

“I am thankful that while my brother was still alive that he got to see a lot of the lives he touched with his story, but his story continues even now and people enjoy reading it,” Goff said.

Since 2010, Goff has written a murder mystery based on a true story of one of her cousins that happened in 1951 titled “Murder at Mountain Creek” and plans to have a sequel to the book published later this year.

“When I wrote the murder mystery I thought that it would be the end of it, but people asked me to write a sequel,” Goff said. “One night, in the middle of the night, it came to me how I could write the sequel so I went to my computer and typed for four hours and wrote the sequel.”

Goff will have copies of all of her books available at the book lecture on Tuesday and will autograph copies of the books as well.

Her books can be purchased on Amazon, www.tatepublishing.com, Barnes and Noble and at Peach Park in Clanton.