Marynell Autry is the 88-year-old author of the Hillbilly Bone Series based on the history of the Autry family in the Ozarks of Arkansas and the Ouachita Mountains of Oklahoma.

Hillbilly Grit spans 1898 to 1933 through the Dust Bowl, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. Trash Man, second in the series, focuses on 1933 to 1952 and is set in Oklahoma and Texas.

Novels scavenged from a city dump adjacent to a childhood home in the Texas Panhandle introduced Marynell to adult fiction at the age of ten. She lives in an old farmhouse built in 1937 near the location of most of Trash Man. A devoted junker, she is always on the lookout for trash to treasure and stories to tell.