Уинстон Грум - Alabama Noir

Winston Groom, a native of Mobile, graduated from the University of Alabama, served in Vietnam, and worked as a newspaperman. He is the author of eight novels, most famously Forrest Gump, and most recently El Paso. Groom has published twelve books of nonfiction, largely military history. The most recent is The Allies: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II. He lives in Point Clear, Alabama.

Anthony Groomsmarried into a Titusville family more than thirty years ago. Among the oldest black neighborhoods in Birmingham, Titusville has proven to be a rich source of stories for him. It is the setting of his prize-winning novel Bombingham and of several stories in his collection Trouble No More. Like these works, his novel The Vain Conversation explores race, civil rights, and the fight for justice. His story “Selah” appears in Atlanta Noir.

Carolyn Haineswas born in Lucedale, Mississippi, and currently lives in Semmes, Alabama. She is a USA Today best-selling author of mysteries and crime fiction. Along with writing full-time, she has been the director of fiction writing at the University of South Alabama. She has published over eighty books and been honored with the Harper Lee Award for Distinguished Writing and the Alabama Library Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

Ravi Howardis the author of the novels Like Trees, Walking and Driving the King. He was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award. Howard has received fellowships and awards from the Hurston/Wright Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and his short fiction has appeared in Salon and Massachusetts Review. He was born in Montgomery in 1974, and he lived in Mobile from 2006 to 2011.

Suzanne Hudsonwas born in Columbus, Georgia; grew up in Brewton, Alabama; and is a longtime resident of Mobile and Fairhope, Alabama. She is the prize-winning author of two novels and two collections of short stories. Her latest book is The Fall of the Nixon Administration: A Comic Novel . Hudson lives near Fairhope, at Waterhole Branch Productions, with her husband, author Joe Formichella.

Don Nobleis the editor of twelve volumes, three of which are collections of short fiction by Alabamians. He has received a regional Emmy Award for achievement in screenwriting and is the recipient of the state prizes for literary scholarship and service to the humanities, as well as the Governor’s Arts Award. Noble is host of the TV literary interview show Bookmark with Don Noble and reviews books weekly for public radio.

Wendy Reed, an Alabama native, is an Emmy Award — winning writer and producer, whose work includes the series Discovering Alabama and Bookmark with Don Noble. An Alabama State Council on the Arts fellow, Reed’s books include An Accidental Memoir: How I Killed Someone and Other Stories, All Out of Faith, and Circling Faith (coedited by Jennifer Horne). Reed teaches in the University of Alabama Honors College and lives in Hoover, Alabama.

Michelle Richmondwas born in Demopolis, Alabama, raised in Mobile, and is a graduate of the University of Alabama. She is the author of two prize-winning volumes of stories and five novels, most recently the thriller The Marriage Pact, which has been translated into thirty languages. Richmond is the recipient of the Truman Capote Prize for Distinguished Work in Short Fiction and the Grace Paley Prize.

Daniel Wallacewas born in Birmingham in 1959. He is the author of many novels, including Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions, which was made into a feature film by Tim Burton, and then a Broadway musical. Wallace’s most recent novel, set in Birmingham, is Extraordinary Adventures. He now resides in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he directs the creative writing program at UNC. Wallace is the 2019 winner of the Harper Lee Award for Distinguished Writing.

Brad Watsonwas born near the Alabama border in Mississippi and moved across the state line in 1978. His work has received honors from the National Book Foundation, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, the Southern Book Critics Circle, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has won the Harper Lee Award for Distinguished Writing. He is the author of two volumes of stories and two novels, The Heaven of Mercury, short-listed for the National Book Award, and Miss Jane.