Biography:

Businessman. Born– January 5, 1920, in Allsboro, Ala. (Colbert County). Parents– Clarence Hudson and Lydia (Blackburn) Twitty. Married– Gaila Northing, 1941. Children– Four. Married– Edith Bolling, July 1951. Children– Two. Education– University of North Alabama, 1939-1941; University of Alabama, 1941-1943; University of North Carolina, A.B., 1944. Recipient, Julius Rosenwald Fellowship to University of Alabama, 1943 and University of North Carolina, 1944. U.S. Army, 1944-1945. Vice president, Twitty & Twitty, Inc., Cherokee, Muscle Shoals, and Birmingham, Ala.; Pompany Beach, Fla.; and Houston, Tex., 1948-1954; president, 1954. Chairman, Alabama State Planning Board, 1947-1951. Died January 16, 1994.

Source:

Who’s Who in the South and Southwest.

Publication(s):

The Flying Green Whale and Other Poems. Northport, Ala.; American Southern, 1965.

Y’all Come. Nashville; Hermitage Press, 1962.

Joint_Publication(s):

Sacred Chitimacho Indian Beliefs. Pompany Beach, Fla.; Twitty & Twitty, 1971.