Latest News from NewSouth Books:
- William Heath wins Western Writers of America Spur Award
William Heath (The Children Bob Moses Led) is the winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Historical Nonfiction for his new book William Wells and and the Struggle for the Old Northwest. The Spur Awards are given by the Western Writers of America. Heath’s is the first biography of William Well, a frontiersman born to Anglo parents and captured and raised by Miami Indians …
- Faye Gibbons celebrates literary legacy of Sue Pickett
One NewSouth author pays homage to another in the current issue of Alabama Heritage magazine. Faye Gibbons, author of the young adult novel Halley, penned a beautiful appreciation of Suzanne Pickett, whose memoir The Path Was Steep: A Memoir of Appalachian Coal Camps During the Great Depression was rereleased by NewSouth Books in 2013 …
- John Pritchard named Mississippi “Legend”
John Pritchard, author of the Junior Ray series, was amused to see himself listed as a “legend” among Mississippi authors on the website for the Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Experience, a cultural center set to open in 2017. He noted, “There are some, in fact, who might insist that I have always been entirely fictitious!” …
- Rod Davis and co-panelists kill it at State of the Book Crime Fiction panel
Rod Davis (South, America) and co-panelists Christopher Cook and Eusebio Diaz presented recently on “Crime Fiction: The Genre of Dissent, Values and Codes of Conduct” at the Gemini Ink’s State of the Book conference …
- Attorney Fred Gray at DNC convention reflects on our political history
Legendary civil rights attorney Fred Gray spoke to the Montgomery Advertiser about his experience as a delegate for Hillary Clinton at the recent Democratic National Convention …
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