Biography:

Journalist.  Born– Byesville, Ohio.  Reporter for the Gadsden Times and the Birmingham News, 1967-1997.  Received the 2014 Clarence Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Alabama School of Communication, 2014.

Publications;

Judge:  The Life and Opinions of Birmingham’s Frank M. Johnson Jr.  Black Belt  Press, 1992.

Let us Now Praise Famous Women: A Memoir.  Fire Ant Books, 2005.

Until Justice Rolls Down:  The Birmingham Church Bombing Case.  Fire Ant Books, 2005.

Editor;

Hear the Bugles Calling:  My Three Wars as a Combat Infantryman.  NewSouth Books, 2001.

Selma, Lord, Selma.  University of Alabama Press, 1997.