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  • A. B. Meek (1814-1865) was born in Columbia, S.C., and was admitted to the bar at Tuscaloosa in 1835. In 1846, Meek was appointed Federal Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama in Mobile, which became his residence for nearly twenty years. Meek was elected twice to the state legislature from Mobile. From 1851 to 1853, Meek was an associate of Thaddeus Sanford, editor of the Mobile Register, which published many of his poems. He was also a popular orator, speaking on topics related to Southwestern history. In 1855, Meek published his book-length poem, The Red Eagle, about William Weatherford and the Creek War of 1813. In 1857, he published Songs and Poems of the South, a collection of poems and lyrics about the South; and Romantic Passages in Southwestern History, a prose work on Southwestern history. In 1863, Meek moved to Columbus, Miss., where he died. His lifelong project, a history of Alabama, was never published. – This Goodly Land
  • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909) has been called the “foremost Southern novelist of her time”, writing nine novels including Inez,, Beulah, St. Elmo, Infelice, Vashti, At the Mercy of Tiberius, A Speckled Bird, and Devota. She was born in Columbus, Georgia. When her father’s business went bankrupt in the 1840s economic depression, the family moved to Mobile. At the age of 15, she wrote her first book, Inez. She followed this book with Beulah, 1859, which sold a staggering 22,000 copies the first year of publication. The family used the profits to buy Georgia Cottage on Springhill Avenue. St. Elmo was the third most popular nineteenth-century American novel, after Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Ben-Hur. Hotels, steamboats, cigars, and even towns were named for it. As a Southern propagandist she wrote, unsigned, a series of fiery articles that appeared in the Mobile newspaper in the fall of 1859. Evans’s ended her engagement to a northern editor during the secession crisis. Her most famous piece of propaganda was Macaria, a novel smuggled into the North for publication, was banned by Union commanders due to insubordination caused among their ranks. Wilson was a nurse during a yellow fever epidemic in Mobile and at Fort Morgan during the war. She later established a small hospital on the outskirts of Mobile. Augusta Evans married wealthy Colonel Lorenzo Madison Wilson, 27 years her senior, and moved to Ashland on Springhill Avenue. There she became the favorite hostess of Mobile, having dethroned Madame LeVert, who had welcomed the occupying federals too warmly. She died in 1909 and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery. Ashland burned in 1926, but Georgia Cottage still stands. Wilson’s works featured virtuous heroines who educated themselves by individual studies and then gave up their studies to accept their roles as Christian wives. Wilson, having written in an obsolete Victorian style, is largely unread today. – Sources: Wikipedia; AWHOF; John Sledge (American Center for Artists); Encyclopedia of Alabama; This Goodly Land
  • Rev. Father Abram J. Ryan, (1838-1886) is called the “poet-priest of the South”. He was born in Virginia the son of Irish immigrants, was ordained in New York, and served in the Confederate Army as a chaplain. Starting in 1865, Ryan moved from parish to parish throughout the South and began writing poetry capturing the spirit of sentimentality and martyrdom then rising in the South, as in his most famous poem, “The Conquered Banner”. From 1870 to 1883, he was pastor of St. Mary’s Church in Mobile where he continued to write poems in the Lost Cause style. Among the more memorable are “C.S.A.”, “The Sword of Robert E. Lee”, and “The South”. Ryan also published several volumes of verse, including Father Ryan’s Poems and A Crown for Our Queen.  In the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878, Ryan and others formed the Can’t Get Away Club, who remained in the city to tend to the sick and bury the dead. Ryan died in 1886 in Louisville, Kentucky, but his body was returned to St. Mary’s in Mobile for burial. Ryan Park, featuring a statue of Father Ryan, was dedicated in 1913 – Wikipedia
  • Thomas Cooper De Leon (1839-1914) was born in Columbia, S.C. of Jewish parents, his father a prominent physician, and graduated from Georgetown College.  He abandoned the Jewish faith in his adult life. He became a Confederate officer as secretary for and “protégé of” Jefferson Davis.  From 1868 to 1873 he was editor of the Mobile Register, and afterwards remained a journalist and publisher in Mobile (The Gossip and Gulf Citizen). He was the organizer and manager of the Mobile Carnival Association and a companion of Augusta Evans Wilson. He was totally blind after 1903. He published dozens of fiction and non-fiction books and pamphlets – Wikipedia
  • John L. Rapier (1842-1905) was editor and publisher of the Mobile Register from the 1880s until his death in 1905.  He married Regina Demouy, who purchased Termite Hall in 1919. – Wikipedia
  • Peter J. Hamilton (1859-1927) was a Mobile lawyer and historian who also served as Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico from 1913 to 1921. Hamilton’s books during his Alabama years included Colonial Mobile: An Historical Study (1897), Early Southern Institutions (1898), The Colonization of the South (1904), The Reconstruction Period (1910), and Mobile of the Five Flags (1913). He also practiced law and was involved in codifying the city ordinances of Mobile.
  • Erwin Craighead was born in Nashville and worked on newspapers in New Orleans before becoming editor of the Mobile Register in 1882. He wrote From Mobile’s past: Sketches of memorable people and events (1925); Mobile: Fact and tradition, noteworthy people and events (1930); Mobile, the Gulf city of Alabama (1883); History of the Mobile cadets, 1845-1925; and The literary history of Mobile (1914)
  • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (1860-1936) was born in Mobile, grew up in Lexington, Ky., then moved with her family to New York City. Andrews wrote articles and short stories that were published in popular magazines such as Scribner’s Magazine, Collier’s, and Ladies’ Home Journal. Her most famous work, The Perfect Tribute, a fictional story about Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address, was first published in 1906. It has been reprinted extensively, and ABC-TV broadcast a television version in 1991. Andrews died in Syracuse. – Wikipedia; This Goodly Land
  • Mary McNeill Fenollosa (1865-1954) grew up in Mobile where both of her parents wrote for publication in newspapers and magazines. Fenollosa began writing for publication when she became widowed at the age of 20 and returned home to live with her parents. She remarried in 1890 and moved to Japan where her husband was living. After the failure of the marriage, she returned to Mobile in 1892 but retained her interest in Japan. She continued to write and was published in nationally distributed publications such as The Century, Lippincott’s, St. Nicholas, and Scribner’s. In 1894, Fenollosa moved to Boston to work at the Museum of Fine Arts as an assistant to Ernest Fenollosa, an expert in Oriental art. They married in 1895 and moved to Japan in 1897. While there, Fenollosa published Out of the Nest, a collection of her poems, and Truth Dexter, a novel based in Mobile which she published under the pen name Sidney McCall. She also wrote The Breath of the Gods and The Dragon Painter. After her husband’s death in 1909, Fenollosa devoted herself to editing his life’s work, a collection of material on Oriental art published as Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art. She wrote a few more novels, but they were unsuccessful. Fenollosa did not return to Alabama until shortly before her death. Several of her novels were made into silent movies. – Encyclopedia of Alabama; This Goodly Land
  • Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), writer of the meat-industry expose “The Jungle,” came to Fairhope in the 1920s because it was a Single Tax Colony founded by famous economist Henry George. – Wikipedia
  • Kate Ayers Robert wrote The Wheat of Bethlehem (1919), Two Gardens (1920), A Rosary of Rhyme (1924), Patsy Jones Sets ‘Em Right (1930)
  • Marie Stanley (Marie Tilney Layet) (1885-1936) was born and raised in Mobile. Her parents died when she was a girl, and she lived with her grandmother and became acquainted with her grandmother’s friend Augusta Jane Evans Wilson. After the death of her grandmother, Stanley lived with relatives in New Jersey and Ohio and trained to be an artist. She returned to Mobile at age twenty-four and opened a studio. To support herself, she taught classes and wrote scripts for silent movies. After her marriage in 1917, Stanley began writing poems and short stories, which were published in literary magazines. She and her husband became involved in local theater in the 1920s, writing, directing, and acting in productions of the Little Theatre of Mobile. In 1927, Stanley and her husband moved to an estate in Spring Hill, where they entertained local writers such as William March and Henry Hervey. In the late 1920s, the couple moved to Apalachicola, Fla., where Stanley’s husband managed a family-owned sawmill. While living there, Stanley wrote Gulf Stream which was published in 1931 under the pen name “Marie Stanley,” which combined her first name with that of her husband. Gulf Stream concerns an interracial romance and the problems encountered by a person of mixed race in both white and black cultures. The story is set in fictionalized versions of Spring Hill, Sandtown, and Mon Saint Louis Island. Stanley wrote a second novel, but her publishers rejected it. The disappointment upset her mental balance, which had already been weakened by an alcohol problem. Stanley suffered a collapse and never fully recovered. – This Goodly Land
  • William March. (1894-1954) William E. March Campbell was born in Mobile in 1894 to a poor, itinerant family. Having ten other siblings, March was afforded no privileges and by the age of 14 had dropped out of school and taken employment in Lockhart in the office of a lumber mill. He was studied law at the University of Alabama and served in the Marine Corps during World War I. In 1921, March became an organizer and eventually vice-president of the Waterman Steamship Corp. March continued to work and travel for Waterman until 1938, when he resigned to write full time. He lived and wrote in New York until he suffered a mental breakdown in 1947. His friends took him back to Mobile to recover, and he divided his time between Mobile and New Orleans until 1952, when he settled permanently in New Orleans. He died there in 1954. He published his first novel, Company K, in 1933. He followed it with The Tallons, the Looking-Glass, and The Bad Seed, which was made into a movie in 1956. Many of his books take place in fictitious Pearl County, Ala. Alistair Cooke wrote that March was “the most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction”  - Wikipedia; Southern Literary Trail; This Goodly Land
  • Julian Lee “Judy” Rayford (1908-1980) was born and grew up in Mobile. When Rayford was ten, he was discovered to be color-blind, and it was recommended that he become a sculptor. Rayford began writing poems in high school, publishing two in The American Mercury magazine in 1925. After one year at Duke University, Rayford apprenticed himself to Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor responsible for the Stone Mountain and Mount Rushmore monuments. Rayford studied art and worked around the country. In 1932, Rayford published Ancient Doorways, a book of poems. In 1937, he returned to Mobile and worked as a reporter for the Mobile Register. Rayford’s first novel, Cottonmouth, was published early in 1941, just before he was drafted into the US Army. He was soon given a medical discharge due to narcolepsy. During World War II he made recruiting posters and camouflaged ships at a shipyard in Vancouver, Wash. In 1945 he went on a USO tour of military hospitals, entertaining wounded soldiers with folk songs and storytelling. After the tour, he returned to Mobile and lived there for the rest of his life. Rayford’s interest in American folk songs and stories continued, and he gave concerts and made recordings and radio and television broadcasts well into the 1970s. He also published a novel about folk hero Mike Fink and a collection of Mobile area folk stories. He wrote for the Chickasaw newspaper, the News-Herald, in the 1950s and again in the 1970s. Rayford continued to work as an artist, as well, creating sculptures for local organizations, including the Farragut-Buchanan Monument in Mobile’s Bienville Square. He was active in the Mobile Mardi Gras culture, publishing a book about its history and founding a local marching society. Rayford coordinated the reburial of Joe Cain in the Church Street Cemetery, and was buried next to him in 1981. He was the author of Cottonmouth; The First Christmas Dinner (1947); Child of the Snapping Turtle (1951); Whistlin’ Woman and Crowin’ Hen: The true legend of Dauphin Island and the Alabama coast (1956); Chasin’ the Devil Round a Stump: A History of Mardi Gras in Mobile (1962); and others. – This Goodly Land
  • Celestine Sibley (1914 – 1999) was born in Holley, Fla. When her parents separated, she and her mother moved to Mobile. When Sibley’s mother remarried, they moved to Hatter’s Mill at Creola, Ala., where her stepfather’s family had a lumber business. Sibley commuted to Mobile to attend high school and got a job at the Mobile Press. When Spring Hill College began allowing women to enroll, Sibley attended classes there while still working for the newspaper. In 1936, Sibley married a fellow newspaper reporter and moved with him to Pensacola and then to Atlanta, where Sibley took a job at The Atlanta Constitution. Sibley wrote a murder mystery set in a newsroom. The Malignant Heart, in 1958. In 1963, she published a history of Atlanta called Peachtree Street, U.S.A., and, the following year, she published a collection of her stories under the title Christmas in Georgia. Sibley continued to work as a newspaper reporter and wrote nonfiction books and several novels, including one based on her family, Jincey. She also wrote a series of murder mysteries featuring a reporter heroine. Her memoir Turned Funny was published in 1988. After her retirement from newspaper reporting, Sibley continued to write her nationally-syndicated columns. – This Goodly Land; Wikipedia
  • Robert Bell in 1959 wrote a novel titled “The Butterfly Tree,” in which the town, Moss Bayou, was based on Fairhope
  • William P. McGivern (1918-1982) grew up in Mobile, moved to Philadelphia after WWII, and wrote crime novels, many of which were adapted for film, among them Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) and The Big Heat (1953) – Wikipedia
  • Caldwell Delaney (1918-2007) Born in Danville, Virginia, in 1918, Caldwell Delaney came to Mobile in 1930. Delaney was headmaster of UMS and the Julius T. Wright School for Girls. In 1964 Delaney was appointed the first director of the Museum of the City of Mobile, and he served in that capacity until 1992. He died in 2007. Delaney’s published works include Deep South (1942); Remember Mobile (1948); The Story of Mobile (1953); Madame Octavia Levert, The South’s Most Famous Belle (1961); Confederate Mobile; Mary McNeil Fenollosa, An Alabama Woman of Letters (1963); The Phoenix Volunteer Fire Company of Mobile, 1838-1888 (1967); and Craighead’s Mobile (1969).
  • Eugene Walter (1921-1998) was born in a small frame house on Bayou Street and raised in Mobile, which he described as “a separate kingdom. We are not North America; we are North Haiti.” Walter was raised by his grandparents.
    • After his grandparents’ deaths, Walter was informally adopted by Hammond Gayfer, a local department store heir. While living with Gayfer, Walter became involved with the Children’s Theatre Guild, acting in and designing and building sets for their productions. He also wrote his own marionette shows and performed them at prisons, hospitals, and timber camps. When Gayfer died, Walter joined the Civilian Conservation Corps to support himself.
    • Walter and Truman Capote first became acquainted in Mobile when they were both children.
    • After World War II, he relocated to New York and Paris, where he helped launch the Paris Review. Living in Rome during the 1960s and 1970s, Walter was labeled “Mobile’s Renaissance Man” because of his diverse activities in many areas of the arts, and in later life, he maintained a connection with Mobile by carrying a shoebox of Alabama red clay around Europe.
    • Walter was a translator for Federico Fellini. He appeared as an actor in more than 20 feature films, notably as the American journalist in Fellini’s 8½ (1963).
    • His books include Monkey Poems (1953), The Byzantine Riddle (1980) and The Untidy Pilgrim (1954). He also compiled several cookbooks, including Delectable Dishes from Termite Hall. He contributed to numerous magazines; his essay “Front Porches” is an evocative portrait of Mobile in 1929. His literary awards include a Rockefeller-Sewanee Fellowship, an O. Henry citation, the Lippincott Award for fiction and the Prix Guilloux.  
    • “Down in Mobile they’re all crazy, because the Gulf Coast is the kingdom of monkeys, the land of clowns, ghosts and musicians, and  Mobile is sweet lunacy’s county seat.” – Eugene Walter, The Untidy Pilgrim
    • “Eugene at Large” aired on WHIL-FM from 1993 to 1998 and featured discussion of local cultural events, recently published books, and food history and recipes. He returned to Mobile in 1979 and died there in 1998. -Wikipedia
    • Trailer for “Eugene Walter: Last of the Bohemians” (Video) .  The documentary on the life of Walter is by filmmaker Robert Clem
    • Eugene Walter’s “Front Porches” (full text); Rare Bird: Eugene Walter; Nomad Music Studio
    • Wikipedia; Southern Literary Trail; Jonathan Yardley, “The Life of the Party”. Washington Post, 8/19/01; This Goodly Land
  • Eugene Sledge (1923-2001) was born in Mobile, the son of a physician. He grew up in Georgia Cottage, the former home of Augusta Evans Wilson. He graduated from Murphy High School, but at 18, dropped out of Marion Institute to join the Marines as a private. Sledge was later a biology professor at the University of Montevallo. In 1981, He wrote an account of two of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, which is now regarded as one of the finest personal accounts of combat in World War II. A follow-up book, China Marine, published posthumously, detailed his life as a soldier in China after World War II and his subsequent return to civilian life in Alabama. Sledge will be portrayed in the upcoming HBO miniseries “The Pacific”. – PR 6/13/2007, 6/19/2007; This Goodly Land; Wikipedia
  • Marian Acker Macpherson, a former Mardi Gras queen, printed a collection of her etchings titled Prints of the Past from Old Mobile in 1932, and published an enlarged edition in 1938. In 1946 she published a guidebook, Glimpses of Old Mobile, which remained in print well into the 1980s. – Sledge, PR 12/14/08
  • Ernest Mason “Sparky” Howell was the owner and publisher of The Onlooker in Foley for 21 years. Howell became managing partner in The Onlooker in 1949, later purchasing it outright. He sold the paper in 1968, although he stayed on and managed it until his death in 1970. The Onlooker provided local news coverage for Foley, Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and Robertsdale.
  • Emily Staples Hearin, wife of former Mobile Press Register publisher William J. Hearin, was instrumental in historic preservation in Mobile. She was president of the Historic Mobile Preservation Society, founded the candlelight Christmas program at Oakleigh mansion, and she spent much of her own money restoring the Staples-Pake Building downtown, where her father’s real estate firm had its offices. She also is the author of five books about Mobile, including Let the Good Times Roll about Mardi Gras.
  • Babs Hodges Deal was born and raised in Scottsboro. At the University of Alabama she was a student of Hudson Strode and married writer Borden Deal. Deal published her first novel, Acres of Afternoon, in 1959. In 1961, her short story “Make My Death Bed” was televised as part of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents series. The Deals moved to Sarasota, Fla., in 1964. Babs Deal published twelve novels between 1959 and 1979. Her short stories were published in national magazines such as McCall’s and Redbook. In 1979, Friendships, Secrets, and Lies, a movie version of her novel The Walls Came Tumbling Down, was broadcast on NBC-TV. The Deals divorced in 1975, and Babs spent her later years living in Gulf Shores. – This Goodly Land
  • Virginia Bradford Greer was born in Atlanta in 1919 and moved to Mobile in 1936 after marrying John Robert Greer.  She wrote for The Mobile Press Register and numerous periodicals. She wrote four books: Give Them Their Dignity (1968) recounts the year that Greer spent teaching youth in a local church. The Glory Woods: A Hymn of Healing (1976), chronicles her personal battle with cancer. Emergency: The True Story of a Woman’s Faith and Service as an Emergency Room Volunteer (1977) is also drawn from her personal experiences. Her final book, Mobile, Talk About Town! (1985) discusses some of Mobile’s most memorable social and literary characters.
  • Dorothy Turner Pendarvis wrote Emma’s Diary, a young girl’s observations about life in the late 1800s and early 1900s in south Mobile County, based on the recollections of  Emma Bosarge of Bayou La Batre. It was reissued in 2008

 

Mobile-Baldwin Current Authors (Alphabetic)

  • David C. Barnette was born in Indiana and moved to Fairhope when he was 13. He wrote “Men are from Mars, but Peanut Man is from Mobile,” “101 Ways to Know if You’re A Mobilian,” and “The Official Guide to Christmas in the South (or If You Can’t Fry It, Spray Paint it Gold).”
  • Richard Barrow, a native of Blue Mountain, Alabama, wrote the novel Wilmer Hall
  • Rick Bragg is the best-selling author of All Over But the Shoutin’, Somebody Told Me, Ava’s Man, and I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story. Formerly a national correspondent for The New York Times, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996. Bragg lives in Tuscaloosa where he is on appointment to the University of Alabama, where he teaches writing in the Journalism Department. – Encyclopedia of Alabama; This Goodly Land; Wikipedia
  • Sonny Brewer:
    • His first novel The Poet of Tolstoy Park, is based on the life on Henry Stuart, who moved to Fairhope in the 1920’s, after being told by his doctor, incorrectly, that he only had a year to live. Stuart, who had a long white beard and became known locally as the Hermit of Montrose, built a small round hurricane-proof hut out of concrete and lived in it for 18 years. Mr. Stuart eventually died at 88 in 1946 in Oregon. Mr. Brewer discovered Henry Stuart’s hut in the 1980’s. Though originally built on 10 acres of wilderness, the hut had been encroached upon as Fairhope grew. It now sits just off the parking lot of a Coldwell Banker office, which used the hut to store its “for sale” signs. Stuart admired Tolstoy, naming the acreage around the hut Tolstoy Park. Though described as a hermit, he accepted visitors regularly; 1,200 people signed a guest book he kept in his hut, according to one article, including the lawyer Clarence Darrow. He kept a loom on the floor that he used to weave rugs, which he sold for a living. Brewer had quit real estate to open Over the Transom bookstore in Fairhope. Based on the first 20 pages and a six-page outline, the agent sold the novel to Ballantine for $100,000. Mr. Brewer’s next move was to persuade a local banker who owns the hut and the land around it to rent the building to him for $9 a month. He wrote a draft of “The Poet of Tolstoy Park” in four fevered months, and then immediately set about restoring the hut, ridding it of “snakes and lizards and fast-food wrappers,” he said, replacing windows and removing a wooden floor. When he was finished, he moved in to revise his novel — while barefoot. People began leaving coins and dollar bills in an iron skillet in the hut, money that seems to be lent and borrowed according to Mr. Stuart’s principles. Mr. Brewer’s latest crusade: getting the hut placed on the National Register of Historic Places. – Warren St. John, New York Times, 5/27/2006;
    • In Brewer’s second novel A Sound Like Thunder, Fairhope is seen through the eyes of a sixteen-year-old boy whose relationship with his father is tenuous at best.
    • Brewer founded the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts.  Nine years ago, Brewer’s Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts and Over The Transom Bookstore, which he owned at the time, sponsored the first Southern Writers Reading Convention on the Eastern Shore.
    • In 2003, Brewer published the first Blue Moon Cafe Anthology, a collection of stories from Southern writers.
    • Brewers fourth book, released in 2007, is Cormac, a tribute to his golden retriever.
    • Sonny Brewer Website; Wikipedia; Interview WBHM; Emerging Writers Forum
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  • W. E. Butterworth was born in New Jersey in 1929 and moved to Fairhope in 1962. Butterworth has published over 125 novels, specializing in military fiction, and books for younger readers, under his own and numerous pen names, particularly W. E. B. Griffin. He divides his time between Fairhope and Buenos Aires, Argentina. W. E. B. Griffin Website; This Goodly Land; Wikipedia 
  • Mark Childress was born in Monroeville. He was a writer for The Birmingham News, Southern Living,  and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He published his first novel, A World Made of Fire, and retired from journalism to write full-time. His most famous novel, Crazy in Alabama, was made into a motion picture. Childress published his first children’s book, Joshua and Bigtooth, in 1992. He has lived in Magnolia Springs and currently resides in New York. – This Goodly Land; Wikipedia
  • Katherine Clark graduated from Harvard and came to Mobile to teach English at the University of South Alabama (she left to teach at the University of New Orleans and at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and now lives in Pensacola). She wrote MOTHERWIT: An Alabama Midwife’s Story (1989) with Onnie Lee Logan, who was a midwife in Prichard and Crichton between 1931 and 1984. Logan became a “feminist luminary” whose obituary appeared in the New York Times. Clark also co-wrote Eugene Walter’s autobiography Milking the Moon. She continues to contribute articles on literature to the Press-Register.
  • Samuel N. Crosby has practiced law in Baldwin County over 25 years. He has also served as a judge, arbitrator, and mediator. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and of the University of Alabama Law School. He is the author of numerous columns and articles as well as two books, The Sleeping Juror & Other Baldwin County Courtroom Tales & History.
  • J. D. Crowe grew up near Irvine, Kentucky and graduated from Eastern Kentucky University, winning the state’s top collegiate journalism awards for his editorial cartoons in the campus newspaper, The Eastern Progress. He then worked at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, San Diego Tribune and Copley News Service. In 1991, he published “Daze of Glory; Images of Fact and Fantasy Inspired by the Gulf War.” He joined the staff of the Press-Register as the daily editorial cartoonist in 2000. Compilations include Dark Side of the Moonpie, 2005 Hurricane Season, and Smell the Love. He lives with his family in Fairhope. – Crowetoons; Croweblog; AAEC
  • Franklin (Frank) Daugherty grew up in Spring Hill and attended Murphy High School. He wrote the satiric novels Postmodern Times (1987) and Isle of Joy (1997). He is a former writer for Azalea City News, columnist for Mobile Bay Monthly and Professor of English at the University of South Alabama. Oakleigh: A Whole Way of Life
  • Ben Erickson grew up in Mobile and graduated from The University of South Alabama in 1975. He and his wife moved to rural west Alabama and built a log cabin by hand, and then to Eutaw, where he is a furniture maker who has written numerous articles for woodworking magazines. – Alabama Bound
  • Fannie Flagg (Patricia Neal) was born in Birmingham, but lives in Fairhope and California. Flagg’s career began in the 1960s when wrote for and co-hosted Candid Camera, and she has acted in several films. Among her novels are her best known book, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, for which she wrote the screenplay which became the 1991 film Fried Green Tomatoes and garnered her a nomination for an Academy Award.  She has also written Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! (1998), Standing in the Rainbow (2002), A Redbird Christmas (2004), Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven (2006). – Wikipedia; This Goodly Land
  • Joe Formichella’s book, The Wreck of the Twilight Limited about the Sunset Limited train disaster came out in 2004. His second book, Here’s to You, Jackie Robinson: The Legend of the Prichard Mohawks was released in 2005. Formichella’s third book, Murder Creek, is a nonfiction book about an unsolved murder in Brewton that occurred 40 years ago.  Formichella has been tasked with writing the book, Single Spirit: The Literary Tradition and History of Fairhope, detailing Fairhope’s writers, past and present. His day job is at Thomas Hospital, where he works in the laboratory as a medical technologist
  • David Fuller of Spanish Fort produced a book of poems, Ordinary Moments (2002)
  • Tom Franklin grew up in Dickinson in Clarke County, moved to Mobile at age 18, attended and later taught at the University of South Alabama before moving to Oxford, Miss. He wrote Poachers: stories, set in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, as well as Hell at the Breech and Smonk. – This Goodly Land
  • Frye Galliard is a native of Mobile and now a resident of North Carolina. He is writer-in-residence at the University of South Alabama and has published 19 books, including 2004’s Cradle of Freedom about civil rights in Alabama, Southern Voices, The Dream Long Deferred, As Long As the Waters Flow, If I Were A Carpenter, and The Heart of Dixie. His Lessons from the Big House concerns the South Carolina Hugenot Gaillard family.
  • Maurice Gandy teaches creative writing at Bishop State Community College and the University of South Alabama. He published his Calpocalypse about growing up in California on iUniverse. – Baldwin County Now
  • Robert M. Glennon is a native of the Alabama and Mississippi Gulf Coast. He is a semi-retired executive from the telecommunications industry and writes and researches not-so-well-known stories from Gulf South history. He was graduated from Mississippi State University and attended Loyola University College of Law in New Orleans.
  • James Gonzales, an attorney in Denver who grew up in Mobile, wrote Gunny: Memoirs of Mobile’s South Side: Riding Alabama’s Tide of White Supremacy based on the life of his father, Joseph Gonzales
  • Elizabeth Gould, an architectural historian, taught at the University of South Alabama from 1966 to 1975. She wrote several books: Nineteenth Century Mobile Architecture: An Inventory of Existing Buildings (1974); From Fort to Port: An Architectural History of Mobile, Alabama, 1711-1918 (1988); and From Builders to Architects: The Hobart-Hutchisson Six (1997).
  • Winston Groom was born in Washington, D.C. but was raised in Mobile. At the University of Alabama he edited and wrote for the university humor and literary magazine. After graduation in 1965, he served in the U.S. Army for two years, which included a thirteen-month tour of duty in Vietnam. In 1967, Groom began working as a reporter for The Washington Star and made contacts in the literary world. He resigned in 1976 and moved to New York to write his Vietnam novel, Better Times Than These, which was published in 1978. Some of his subsequent novels have featured Alabama settings, including his most famous book, Forrest Gump, which was made into a movie. Much of Groom’s nonfiction has had a military theme, including his second Vietnam-related book, the Pulitzer-nominated Conversations with the Enemy. Other works include As Summers Die (1980), Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville (1995), A Storm in Flanders (2002), 1942: The Year That Tried Men’s Souls (2005), and Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Lafitte at the Battle of New Orleans (2006). – Wikipedia; This Goodly Land
  • John Hafner is a professor of English at Spring Hill College. Publications include short stories, poems, travel articles, and reviews of contemporary fiction. He is co-editor, with Sue Walker and Mary Riser, of Literary Mobile.
  • Carolyn Haines was born in Hattiesburg and grew up in Lucedale, Mississippi. She got her Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Alabama. She lives in Semmes. Her series of mysteries are set in the fictional town of Zinnia in the Mississippi Delta, with the heroine Sarah Booth Delaney. She also wrote Harlequin novels under the pseudonym Caroline Burnes. – Carolyn Haines Website; FreshFiction ~ The Carolyn Blog; Alabama Bound; Mississippi Writers & Musicians
  • Pamela Hartman, D.Min., is an ordained United Methodist minister (Foley UMC), a teacher and a psychotherapist with more than 25 years of experience working to bring healing to the people and communities around her. She has spoken and taught extensively along the Gulf Coast as well as in the Midwest; she and her husband Jon, along with their five children, form an interracial family. – Words into Type
  • Melinda Haynes grew up in Hattiesburg, wrote her first book in Grand Bay and now lives in Mobile. Mother of Pearl was selected for the Oprah Book Club. Chalktown was named one of the best seven books by America’s independent booksellers. Her third book is Willem’s Field. – Mississippi Writes & Musicians; Alabama Bound
  • Stephen Douglas Hedrick is the author of Tall Tales and Sonnets of the South, and is the former head of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra, where he worked from 2006 to 2008. For 20 years before that, he led Walt Disney Company’s creative entertainment division and executive producer/project director of entertainment of Disney’s $3.2 billion theme park in Tokyo. – Book Website, Harrison, PR 6/10/07; Baldwin County Now
  • James Glennon Hietter was born and raised in Mobile, and taught for many years in New Orleans at the University of New Orleans, Jesuit High School, and Louise S. McGehee School. He also taught at LSU, at Newbury Junior College in Boston, and at Jesuit high schools in Dallas and El Paso. He earned undergraduate degrees in English from Spring Hill College and in theology from St. Louis University as well as a master’s in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.He edited two Jesuit newspapers in Boston, directed the poetry workshop of the Jesuit Artist Institute at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and studied at the New York City Writers Conference under Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and poet laureate Stanley Kunitz. He has given poetry readings throughout the country and published in the Southern Review and other periodicals. Mr. Hietter, who was a member of the Society of Jesus for many years, describes his verse as primarily a mix of free verse and blank verse, and hence he calls it “frank verse.” – Words into Type
  • Jay Higginbotham is founder of the Mobile Municipal Archives. His Old Mobile (1977) became a classic. Shortly after the American publication of Fast Train Russia in 1983, Higginbotham joined the international peace movement and returned to Russia. After meeting with Giorgi Arbatov, Premier Chernenko’s chief advisor, and speaking on Radio Moscow and Soviet national television, he donated blood on Sputnik Day and made a widely circulated statement for peace in a public ceremony broadcast worldwide.
  • Roy Hoffman was born and grew up in Mobile. After attending Tulane he lived in New York for twenty years, working for New York Magazine and Mario Cuomo. Hoffman returned to Mobile in 1996 to become “writer-in-residence” for the Mobile Press-Register. Since his return, he has published a collection of essays and a second novel. Hoffman and his family live in Fairhope. His novel Chicken Dreaming Corn, was a BookSense Pick and Southern Living Select. Other books include Almost Home, winner of the Lillian Smith Award, and Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile, a collection of narrative nonfiction, profiles, and essays from the Mobile Register, New York Times, Preservation, and other publications. A staff writer for the Mobile Register, Hoffman also teaches at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. He is a teaching writer for “Writing Mobile Bay: The Hurricane Project.” – This Goodly Land
  • ·         Ravi Howard grew up in Montgomery and Jackson, Mississippi, and now lives in Mobile.  He wrote the novel Like Trees Walking based on the murder of Michael Donald. – Ravi Howard Website; NPR Interview
  • Suzanne Hudson lives outside Fairhope on the Waterhole Branch Arts Commune. She is Fairhope Middle School’s Creative Writing teacher and guidance counselor. She is the author of two novels, In a Temple of Trees and In the Dark of the Moon, and short story collection, Opposable Thumbs. She is on the Board of the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts. – Southern Artistry; Southern Scribe
  • Norman Jetmundsen was born in Mobile and now is an attorney in Birmingham. His novels are Soulbane Stratagem and its sequel Soulbane Illusion.
  • Marjorie K. Jones wrote Who Are You Staking a Claim in this Land: A History of South Mobile Alabama about the black community in south Mobile
  • Col. Tom Kelly is a legendary turkey hunter and resident of Spanish Fort.  Kelly’s first book, Tenth Legion, is a classic. Kelly, an artillery officer and battery commander in the Korean War, received a bachelor’s degree in forestry from Auburn University in 1949. He is a member of the White Smith Land Company board. – NWTF; Tom Kelly Website; Outdoor Alabama
  • Jack Kerley splits his time between Newport, Ky. And Fairhope. He is the author of four crime novels set in Mobile with protagonist Carson Ryder, including The Hundredth Man and The Death Collectors. – Jack Kerley Website; Wikipedia
  • Watt Key (Albert Watkins Key Jr.) wrote Alabama Moon based on experiences in his youth in Point Clear- Wikipedia; New York Times, 2/11/07; Watt Key Website; PR 9/8/08
  • Michael Knight is a Mobile native and graduate of St. Paul’s. His novels and short story collections include The Holiday Season (2007), Goodnight, Nobody (2003); Divining Rod (1998); and Dogfight & Other Stories (1998).He has been the recipient of numerous awards and is currently the Director of Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee. “Nobody writes about the contemporary Southern upper middle class as well as Mobile’s own Michael Knight.” – John Sledge, PR 11/16/07; This Goodly Land; Wikipedia
  • T. Jensen Lacey lives in Fairhope and is a teacher at Robertsdale High School. She has written several travel books about the South and young adult books, as well as more than 600 newspaper and magazine articles and contributions to the “Chicken Soup for the Soul books. – T. Jensen Lacey Website
  • Thomas Lakeman was born and raised in Mobile. He attended the University of the South, where he is Tennessee Williams playwright-in-residence, and received a M.F.A. in Playwriting from Carnegie-Mellon. He worked in the marketing department at Universal Pictures, founded the company Digital Planet, and produced the Internet’s first fully animated series, Madeleine’s Mind. He taught Literature and Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama before writing full-time. He published his first book, The Shadow Catchers, in 2006. Lakeman’s novels are a continuing series revolving around a pair of FBI special agents, Mike Yeager and Peggy Weaver.  In addition to his novels, Lakeman also wrote the screenplay for the independent feature Triptych, produced by Tea Tree Films, as well as numerous stage plays for production by the Playhouse in the Park. He lives in Fairhope. – Thomas Lakeman Website; Wikipedia; Alabama Bound
  • John Logue was born in Bay Minette and played basketball at Auburn. He was a police reporter and sportswriter for The Montgomery Advertiser as well as United Press wire editor and sportswriter for The Atlanta Journal. John was named creative director for Southern Living magazine and later editor-in-chief of Oxmoor House. His first title in the Morris and Sullivan series, Follow the Leader, was nominated for the Edgar Award for best first mystery in America
  • Reilly Maginn is a former transplant surgeon from St. Louis who spent fifteen years in the South Pacific before moving to Daphne.. He has written a multitude of award-winning short stories as well as the medical thriller Bio (2003), and teaches writing at the Eastern Shore Institute for Lifelong Learning in Fairhope – Reilly Maginn Website, Northington, PR4/6/09
  • Fred Marchman studied painting, sculpture and printmaking at the of University of Alabama and Tulane University. He wrote poetry & illustrated books, Ecuadernos–poems of Ecuador, did photography, painting, drawing & sculpture. In 1968, Marchman started the Nail Press in San Francisco. He periodically reads poetry at the Carpe Diem coffeehouse in Mobile where he has lived since returning to his hometown in 1979. He wrote art reviews and drawn cartoon strips (Dr. Jo-Mo, Modern Plastic) for The Harbinger. He taught visual art and art history at the Alabama School of Math and Science from 1992-1995. He has taught drawing and painting at Faulkner State College in Fairhope since 2003. – Fred Marchman Website; Harbinger
  • Susan McConnell is author of Raising Great Kids in a Tough World. She is an author, public speaker, and counselor who resides in Mobile
  • Michael Morris is a native of Perry, Florida and lives in Fairhope. Upon graduating from Auburn University, Michael worked for U.S. Senator Bob Graham and then became a sales representative for pharmaceutical companies. His novels are A Place Called Wiregrass and Slow Way Home. – Michael Morris Website
  • Albert Lee Murray (1916- ) was born in Nokomis, Escambia County, and grew up in Magazine Point in Mobile.  He was educated at Mobile County Training School and Tuskegee Institute, Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps and retired from the Air Force with the rank of major in 1962. He earned a master’s degree in literature from New York University in 1948 and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. He taught English and American literature and directed theater at Tuskegee.  In the 1960s he settled in New York and began his career as a writer. He became a music, social, and literary critic with a focus on African-American culture. His writings include the “Scooter” series of semi-autobiographical novels including Train Whistle Guitar (1974), cultural analyses such as The Omni-Americans (1970), and works on the influence of jazz and the blues on American culture. Murray is one of the original founders (with Wynton Marsalis) and a board member of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Murray currently lives in New York City – Encyclopedia of Alabama; Wikipedia; Alabama Arts Council; This Goodly Land; Southern Literary Trail
  • Jennifer Paddock wrote A Secret Word and Point Clear. She received her master’s in creative writing at New York University. She lives in Point Clear with her husband, the writer Sidney Thompson. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in a number of publications. She also works at the Grand Hotel as an assistant tennis pro. – BaldwinCounty Now, 1/8/09
  • Elizabeth Parker has written several books on ghosts in Mobile – Website
  • Linda Busby Parker earned her undergraduate degree from the University of South Alabama, her MA and PhD from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and her MFA from Spalding University (Louisville). She is the author of Seven Laurels, which was the 2002 winner of the James Jones First Novel Award and the 2004 Langum Prize for Historical Fiction. Shorter works have appeared in regional anthologies. She has served as publisher and editor of Mobile Bay Monthly. She has taught on the faculties of Eastern Michigan University, Iowa State University and the University of South Alabama. She lives in Mobile with family. – Linda Busby Parker Website, Southern Scribe
  • Marlene K. Patterson’s In the Claws of the Vulture is the story of her childhood years in Austria, through World War II under the German Reich, to a new life in America and missionary work in Eastern Europe. Ms. Patterson lives in Daphne, Alabama, with one of her sons. – Words into Type
  • Jack Pendarvis is a Bayou La Batre native and University of South Alabama graduate. While in Mobile he worked at The Haunted Book Shop and wrote a history of it in 1991. His short-story collections are The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure (2005) and Your Body is Changing (2007). His novel Awesome is scheduled to be published in 2008.  The Place Where Jack Pendarvis Has a “Blog”
  • Tom Perez wrote a series of farces about Mobile society. “Miss Charlotte and the Yankee Captain” was a parody of “Gone with the Wind” set in Mobile. Other works include “Society Shell”. He worked with the South of the Saltline Theater and Joe Jefferson Players. – Lagniappe 3/14/2006.
  • Theodore Pitsios wrote The Bellmaker’s House about the port of Mobile and Mobile’s Greek community. – Daugherty, PR 12/2/07
  • Joanne Rains graduated from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor of Journalism degree. After a transfer to Cincinnati, Ohio, and the birth of three children, Mrs. Rains taught for many years at the CAS college of the University of Cincinnati, where she retired as Professor Emerita. Rains now lives in Fairhope, Alabama. – Words into Type; www.therainsbook.com
  • Judith Richards grew up in Illinois. She published five books between 1977 and 1997, several of them loosely based on Cline’s Florida youth. Richards and her husband author C. Terry Cline live in Fairhope. Richards’ novels feature young protagonists growing up in the southeast. – This Goodly Land
  • Michelle Richmond grew up in Mobile, but now lives in San Francisco. She is the founding editor of the literary journal Fiction Attic, and she serves on the advisory board of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. Her works include No One You Know, The Year of Fog, the story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, and Dream of the Blue Room. Her stories and essays have appeared in Glimmer Train, Playboy, The Kenyon Review, Oxford American, The Believer and Salon. She is the recipient of the 2006 Mississippi Review Fiction Prize. – Michelle Richmond Website; Wikipedia
  • Joseph Sackett is a retired Marine Corps officer and aerospace engineer who lives in the Oakleigh Garden District. Novels Gray Ghosts (1995) and Present in Spirit (1997). Nonfiction works include Historic Homes of the Oakleigh Garden District (1999) and Mobile, Mobilians and Southern Ways (2002). Contributions to compilations include Moments with Eugene (2000), Literary Mobile (2002), and Alabama Anthology (2007). Poetry collections include All the World’s a Stage (2003) and Nonsense (2006). Joseph Sackett Website
  • Helen Scully, Mobile native and New Orleans resident, wrote In the Hope of Rising Again, loosely based on the life of her great-grandmother, Regina Rapier Marston of Termite Hall. Called “the best Mobile novel in 50 years” by John Sledge.
  • John Sledge is an architectural historian with the Mobile Historic Development Commission and a Press-Register columnist. His books include: Cities of Silence: A Guide to Mobile’s Historic Cemeteries (2002).
  • Ruth Solomon moved to Fairhope from New York and is a member of the Alabama State Poetry Society, the Pensters Writing Group, and the founder of the New South Performance Poets Association. She is an English Major at the University of South Alabama and hosts a reading venue at Barnes and Noble in Mobile.
  • Tom Stoddard was born in Magnolia Springs. He was a reporter and sports writer before handling public relations for Bellsouth Communications.  Turnaround: Paul “Bear” Bryant’s First Year At Alabama sold completely out of the first printing and has been republished with a foreword by Gene Stallings. He also wrote Foley Steps Forward – Alabama Bound
  • John L. Stump is a chiropractor and resident of Fairhope who wrote the book A Stroke of Midnight after suffering a stroke himself.
  • Michael Thomason and Melton McLaurin wrote Mobile: The Life and Times of a Great Southern City in 1981.
  • Sidney Thompson’s debut short fiction collection is Sideshow and his stories have been published in the Southern Review, the Carolina Quarterly, Louisiana Literature, and New Delta Review and anthologized in The Alumni Grill, Climbing Mt. Cheaha: Emerging Alabama Authors, and two volumes of Stories from the Blue Moon Café. He has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Point Clear and is the husband of Jennifer Paddock. – Emerging Writers Forum
  • Mary Lois Timbes was born in Mobile, grew up in Montrose, and graduated from the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education in Fairhope. Intending to be an actress, she went to Alabama College (now the University of Montevallo). She studied acting in New York and had a career as an actress, journalist and public relations executive. In Geneva, Switzerland, she founded an American “little theater.” Returning to Fairhope in 1988, she began the professional Jubilee Fish Theater, which lasted for seven years.
  • Harry T. Toulmin wrote The Great Bingville Fair: People and Place in Early Toulminville. Daphne: The Village Press, 1983.
  • Thomas Cooper Van Antwerp wrote Hereafter Rising (1988)
  • Varnado, S. L. (Seaborn L.) moved with his family as a young child in the 1930s from Hammond, La. to Mobile. He taught English Literature at the University of South Alabama for 30 years and became a columnist for the Press-Register. He has written numerous books on the supernatural in literature, as well as the humorous Senior Moments (2006) and his childhood memoir Redbeans and Rainbows (2006). – Specker, PR 5/16/09.
  • Sue Brannan Walker, Alabama’s Poet Laureate from 2003 to 2007, has published several books, including It’s Good Weather for Fudge: Conversing with Carson McCullers (with Virginia Spencer Carr), In the Realm of Rivers: Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw Delta, Blood Will Bear Your Name, and The Appearance of Green. She is the founder and publisher of Negative Capability Press. She presently serves as the chair of the University of South Alabama Department of English. – This Goodly Land
  • Claiborne Schley Walsh is a native of Mobile and resident of Montrose. Co-author of “101 Ways To Know If You’re A Mobilian”. Published writer and poet: Red Bluff Review Anthology, Will Work For Peace Anthology, Austin International Poetry Festival Anthology several times; West Florida Literary Review, Bravo, Pensters Anthology and others. Featured poet: Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA; Eastern Short Art Center, Fairhope, AL; Barnes and Nobles – several states. Café Myth, Washington, D.C. – Website
  • Brad Watson grew up in Meridian, Miss. After living in California, in the mid-1980s, he worked for a weekly newspaper on the Gulf Coast. He later wrote for the Montgomery Advertiser and for an advertising agency in Montgomery. He jas since lived in Boston and Wyoming. Brad Watson’s fiction is set in the South and frequently involves failed interpersonal relationships. Last Days of the Dog-Men is a collection of short stories about dogs and people. The Heaven of Mercury is set in a fictional town that is based partly on Meridian partly on Foley and Gulf Shores. – This Goodly Land
  • Edward O. Wilson

 

Mobile Publishers

 

Mobile-Baldwin Local Bookstores

  • Bienville Books (109 Dauphin St.)
  • Springhill College Book Nook (on Springhill College campus)
  • Over the Transom, Fairhope. Owned by Martin Lanaux (previously owned by Sonny Brewer)
  • Page & Palette, Fairhope. Owned by Karin Wilson.
  • The Haunted Book Shop was co-founded by Adelaide Trigg Marston and Cameron and Mary Francis Plummer, parents of Press-Register writer Cammie East. Haunted Book Shop Publishing began by publishing Caldwell Delaney in the 1940s. It was located in the Rapier House on Conception St., LaClede Hotel on Government St. and later on St. Francis St. The spirit of the Haunted Book Shop: A history celebrating the 50th anniversary was written by Jack Pendarvis, who worked at the shop.

 

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