Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey
by Marshall Frady
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The Author: Marshall Bolton Frady, an Emmy Award-winning journalist and biographer, died on March 9, 2004 from cancer. He was 64. Frady attended Furman University and the University of Iowa. During the 1960s and 1970s, the Georgia native wrote for Newsweek, the Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, and Life Magazine. He covered the civil rights movement and interviewed several civil rights leaders, including the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Frady spent seven years as the host and chief show more correspondent for the ABC News documentary series, "Close Up." In 1982, he won an Emmy for "Soldiers of the Twilight, a documentary about mercenaries. He served as a commentator on "Nightline," and freelanced for numerous publications. Frady reprinted a collection of his magazine profiles in "Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey." He also published biographies of King, Jesse Jackson, and the Rev. Billy Graham. His best-known book was the 1968 bio, "Wallace," about George C. Wallace, the former Alabama governor who ran for president as a third-party candidate. Frady originally planned to write a novel featuring Wallace, but after spending months with the segregationist, he decided to write a nonfiction book instead. "Wallace" was adapted by Frady and Paul Monash into a 1997 TV miniseries starring Gary Sinise. The film received eight Emmy nominations and won in the directing, lead actor, and supporting actress categories. show lessTags
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Marshall Frady, a critically acclaimed biographer and veteran journalist, has written for numerous publications, including Newsweek, The New Yorker, and Harper's. He has been a correspondent for Nightline and a host, chief writer, and correspondent for ABC News, where his pieces won many awards. He lives in Los Angeles, California
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- Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
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- 975 — History & geography History of North America Southeastern United States (South Atlantic states)
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- F216.2 .F7 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history The South. South Atlantic States
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