About Ronda
Ronda Rich, a bestselling author and syndicated columnist, exploded on the national stage three decades ago with the wildly successful What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should), a book now in its 40th printing with a 20th Anniversary edition released by the original publisher, Perigee. The popularity of WSWK launched her as a storyteller who rivets audiences with tales of the South as seen through the eyes of its people.
Ronda’s books include Mark My Words, A Memoir of Mama, a collection of Ronda’s Mama stories as first told in her newspaper column; Let Me Tell You Something, a compilation of newspaper columns which also includes new stories and backstories; There’s A Better Day A-Comin’, a personal accounting of people who triumphed over tribulation by pushing through to find a better day; the bestselling What Southern Women Know About Faith and What Southern Women Know About Flirting; My Life in The Pits, a critically acclaimed memoir of her years spent in NASCAR racing as a reporter and publicist; and the novel, The Town That Came A-Courtin', which became a television movie starring Lauren Holly and the much-beloved Valerie Harper.
A former, award-winning sports writer, Ronda returned to her newspaper roots in 2003 with a weekly column which appears in over fifty newspapers. With her stories alternating between humorous, sentimental, and wise, Ronda delivers a punch of Southern life, weekly, to over a million readers who revel in a story well told, one that often is entwined with a moral or lesson learned.
She has appeared on dozens of television shows including The View, Fox and Friends, The Other Half, Fox Sports, CNN, as well as in the pages of People, USA Today, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Golden Isles Magazine, Southern Living, and Woman's Own.
Ronda and her husband, John Tinker, an Emmy award-winning television writer and producer, live in the country outside Atlanta, Georgia, near the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains from where Ronda’s people came.
In addition to Ronda’s weekly, syndicated column appearing in fifty newspapers across the Southeast, from Myrtle Beach to the Mississippi Delta, Ronda writes a monthly column, Due South, for Golden Isles, the magazine for Brunswick, St. Simons, Jekyll and Sea Islands — her much-beloved Georgia coastal islands. You can also watch her on YouTube (content coming soon). Just click the link below.
