Overview :To say that Mobile has a rich history is like saying Nashville has a few musicians. The port city has a rich heritage dating back to the 170... Read More
Overview :More than twenty years ago, Robert Croshon, an elderly friend of Frye Gaillard's, told him the story of Croshon's ancestor, Gilbert Fields, ... Read More
Overview :For nearly forty years, Frye Gaillard has covered the American South as a journalist, historian and writer of memoir. With Music and Justice... Read More
Overview :In the most deeply personal writing of his long career, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the life and work of his wife Nancy, ... Read More
Overview :In 1870 Benjamin Turner, who spent the first 40 years of his life as a slave, was elected to the U.S. Congress. He was the first African Ame... Read More
Overview :Cradle of Freedom puts a human face on the story of the black American struggle for equality in Alabama during the 1960s. While exceptional ... Read More
Overview :Originally published 25 years ago, Watermelon Wine was praised for its honest, unsentimental examination of the compassion as well as the pa... Read More
Overview :Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect in a powerful series of essays on the role of the South ... Read More
Overview :Prophet from Plains covers Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter's major achievements and setbacks in light of what has been at once his gre... Read More
Overview :Frye Gaillard did not set out to write this book. One day as he was thumbing through a cardboard box of his essays, columns, and profiles, h... Read More
Overview :"There are many different ways to remember the sixties," Frye Gaillard writes, "and this is mine. There was in these years the sense of a st... Read More
Overview :The Gulf Coast villages of Bayou La Batre and Coden are two of Alabama's most distinctive, with roots going back to the French settlements o... Read More
Overview :Frye Gaillard's first encounters with books were disappointing. As a child he never cared much for fairy tales - "stories of cannibalism and... Read More