Blake Fontenay

Blake Fontenay has won numerous writing awards during his more than thirty years as a reporter, columnist and editorial writer for newspapers. He's the author of three novels: The Politics of Barbecue , Scouts' Honor and A Three Team Town . The Politics of Barbecue won the Independent Publishers Book Awards gold medal for fiction in the South region in 2013. During his tenure in state government, he researched and wrote biographies of notable Tennesseans for the Tri-Star Chronicles project at...See more

Blake Fontenay has won numerous writing awards during his more than thirty years as a reporter, columnist and editorial writer for newspapers. He's the author of three novels: The Politics of Barbecue , Scouts' Honor and A Three Team Town . The Politics of Barbecue won the Independent Publishers Book Awards gold medal for fiction in the South region in 2013. During his tenure in state government, he researched and wrote biographies of notable Tennesseans for the Tri-Star Chronicles project at the Tennessee State Library and Archives. Saving Stuart, Florida is his first nonfiction book. See less