Frye Gaillard

Frye Gaillard is an award-winning journalist with over 30 published works on Southern history and culture, including Watermelon Wine ; Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement that Changed America ; The Books That Mattered: A Reader's Memoir ; Journey to the Wilderness: War, Memory, and a Southern Family's Civil War Letters ; Go South to Freedom ; A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost ; and The Slave Who Went to Congress . A Hard Rain was...See more

Frye Gaillard is an award-winning journalist with over 30 published works on Southern history and culture, including Watermelon Wine ; Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement that Changed America ; The Books That Mattered: A Reader's Memoir ; Journey to the Wilderness: War, Memory, and a Southern Family's Civil War Letters ; Go South to Freedom ; A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost ; and The Slave Who Went to Congress . A Hard Rain was selected as one of NPR's Best Books of 2018. Writer-in-residence at the University of South Alabama, he is also John Egerton Scholar in Residence at the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi. He is the winner of the Clarence Cason Award for Nonfiction Writing, the Lillian Smith Book Award, and the Eugene Current-Garcia Award For Distinction in Literary Scholarship. In 2019, Gaillard was awarded the Alabama Governor's Arts Award for his contributions to literature. See less