Daphne Simpkins is an Alabama writer and a church lady who usually writes from a different vantage point about church life in the South through her Mildred Budge books. She has also written books on care giving and family life in the South.
Books in order of publication:
| Nat King Cole: An Unforgettable Life Of Music | 2000 |
| The Long Good Night: My Father’s Journey Into Alzheimer’s | 2003 |
| Miss Budge In Love | 2010 |
| Cloverdale | 2011 |
| Embankment | 2013 |
| Mildred Budge in Cloverdale (The Adventures of Mildred Budge Book 1) | 2014 |
| A Cookbook For Katie: Upon the Occasion of Her Marriage Recipes and Reveries for the Bride | 2014 |
| What Al Left Behind: a broken heart, a can-do attitude, and a changed perspective about Alzheimer’s, aging, and caregiving | 2014 |
| Mildred Budge in Embankment (The Adventures of Mildred Budge Book 2) | 2015 |
| Christmas in Fountain City | 2016 |
| he Mission of Mildred Budge: Short Stories about Church Life in the South (The Short Adventures of Mildred Budge Book 2) | 2018 |
| Blessed: Stories about Caregiving | 2018 |
| Miss Budge Goes to Fountain City: A Mildred Budge Christmas Story (The Short Adventures of Mildred Budge Book 3) | 2019 |
| Lovejoy: a novel about desire | 2019 |
| What Makes a Man a Hero?: Stories about Men for Father’s Day | 2020 |
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