| Wayne Greenhaw, Writer
“KING OF COUNTRY is a metaphor for America's corrupted innocence, and Wayne Greenhaw is an artist. Vivid characters and relentless narrative took me down through what must be the Seventh Circle, and I was fascinated by the entire journey. Seamless and unputdownable, a most serious work of fiction and an unmitigated pleasure to read -- two attributes hard to find these days.”
-- Harper Lee
"I love the third-person narrator. The voice is stoic and precise and detached enough so it never passes judgment on Bobby Lee, and doesn't really encourage us to, either. It just presents a life. Very confident choice." -- Chet Kozlowski, author of upcoming novel "Kosti's Song"
“Wayne Greenhaw is the best writer to come out of Alabama since Harper Lee.”
-- Winston Groom
“Wayne Greenhaw is simply one of the best writers in America and truly one of the South’s greatest treasures.”
-- Fannie Flagg WAYNE GREENHAW received the 2006 Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished writer, given annually by the Alabama Writers’ Forum and Alabama Southern Community College at Monroeville’s Alabama Writers’ Symposium.
For a complete bio, click here. A new non-fiction book, FIGHTING THE DEVIL IN DIXIE: How Civil Rights Activists Took On The Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, will be published by Lawrence Hill Books early in 2011.
A GENEROUS LIFE: The Story of William James Samford Jr. by Wayne Greenhaw was published in March of 2009, from River City Publishing.
W. James Samford, Jr. was a man devoted to public service, private philanthropy, and the joys of deep friendship and family connection. His robust energy for living life to the fullest took him from his storied Alabama roots to the upper branches of Washington society and ultimately back again—to the campus of his beloved Auburn University, where he served as president pro tem on the Board of Trustees. He took on all tasks with equal verve, whether he was laboring in the halls of the FDIC or searching Montgomery County’s back roads for the tastiest barbeque. Here, his legacy is recounted by his family, his friends, and his associates—all of whom remember him with love, respect, and humor with stories that evoke the twinkle always evident in his eye. The foundation of Jimmy Samford’s life was generosity, and in this portrait of the man from award-winning author Wayne Greenhaw, it becomes evident that generosity is also his legacy.
For the latest review of KING OF COUNTRY by editor Don Noble, click on http://writersforum.org then click Book Reviews.
THE THUNDER OF ANGELS out in paperback from Lawrence Hill Books, an imprint of Chicago Review Press: $14.95. The newly revised edition of Greenhaw's 1994 novel, KING OF COUNTRY, is published in paperback from River City Publishing. It may be bought from local book stores, the publisher, or Amazon.com Buy KING OF COUNTRY and GHOSTS ON THE ROAD now at your local book store or from Amazon.com or River City Publishing Greenhaw signs contract for his twenty-second book; see Latest News
New poetry added frequently.
Kind regards,
Wayne Greenhaw.
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