Joanna Catherine Scott was the author of the novels The Road from Chapel Hill, Child of the South, Cassandra, Lost, The Lucky Gourd Shop, and Charlie, as well as the nonfiction work Indochina’s Refugees: Oral Histories from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, and the prizewinning poetry collections Breakfast at the Shangri-la, Fainting at the Uffizi, and Night Huntress.