"Scarred for life in the fire of an old southern plantation, and stumbling into the care of impressionist master, Birger Sandzen... this is the story of E. E. Glass. A story of resurrection and redemption, of the unconditional love of two women and a life's calling to unappreciated creativity"...

Born in poverty and died in poverty, Emerson Glass never sold a painting. Glass's father was a foreman on a cotton plantation in the deep south, near the town of Clinton, Louisiana. At the age of seven, a fire destroyed the boy's home and his father and mother died in the blaze. Emerson himself was badly burned and scarred for life on the left side of his face and upper body... leaving him scarred i...