PUBLISHED WORKS
	THE SPIDER'S WEB is an allegory set a half-century ago in Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama. The Story's action is timeless. As earth-shattering as a simple tale by Joseph Conrad or as strangely symbolic as a gothic mystery by Carson McCullers, it is as real and as timely as today's headlines. In these stories of growing up in Alabama in the 1950s, Wayne Greenhaw reaches into his bag of tricks to deliver sleight-of-hand drama that cringes through a hot night as frightening as a solitary woman's scream. It crawls down the spine of the reader witnessing the making of a monster in small-town suburbia. And it is as beautifully nostalgic as a whippoorwill's call at twilight in the delta of south Alabama. Woven through all of the stories in The Spider's Web is Thomas Morgan Reed, our central character, as he struggles toward manhood, wisdom, and redemption.
	Set in 1919, THE LONG JOURNEY tells the story of a young man sent across the Tennessee River valley of north Alabama in search of his oldest brother who is coming home by train to Decatur at the end of the Great War. Harold Reed's adventure is highlighted by a balloon-flying Greek, a fiddle-playing Irishman wearing a Confederate uniform, and an ill-fated Indian girl in Decatur, Harold visits Moccasin Alley, where he meets a mulatto girl named Lacy with whom he is enchanted. And he is charmed by his landlady, Prudence Longshore, whose history is dark while her personality is delightful. When his brother Bosworth finally arrives, what mystery lies beneath his brooding, crippled facade? An adventure of the heart and soul, THE LONG JOURNEY takes the reader back to a time when values were rock solid.
Greenhaw's MY HEART IS IN THE EARTH: True Stories of Alabama and Mexico, was also published by River City Publishing in the fall of 2001. From personal reminiscences of growing up in rural Alabama to dramatic accounts of early history of the state to traveling to Mexico to attend school in the late 1950s, MY HEART IS IN THE EARTH tells the story of one man's view of a larger-than-life world. Greenhaw, a prize-winning journalist, describes his relationship with many of his friends in Alabama and Mexico, among them writers, artists, and politicians. He encounters Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. He uncovers the double life of George Wallace speechwriter Asa Carter who became novelist Forrest Carter. And he tells the history of Alabama-raised William Spratling who became the silver-king of Taxco in Mexico. He tells of meeting singer-songwriter Hank Williams in a drugstore in south Alabama. Many of these chapters first appeared in The New York Times and national magazines. Pat Conroy wrote, Wayne Greenhaw writes about Alabama the way Eudora Welty writes about Mississippi, with great passion, authority, and love of the land. This did not surprise me because Wayne is famous for his devotion to Alabama. But in MY HEART IS IN THE EARTH he writes about Mexico as well as Octavio Paz does, and Greenhaw made me feel that I have led an incomplete and half-empty life because I have never crossed the border to the Mexico he praises so divinely in this wonderful book. Harper Lee wrote, This collection of his journalism is must-reading for Wayne Greenhaw's many fans; first-timers should become enthusiasts. Fannie Flagg wrote, Wayne Greenhaw is simply one of the best writers in America and truly one of the South's greatest treasures. His passion for place jumps off the page. He transports us to Alabama and Mexico and introduces us to the most amazing group of people. I loved the journey!
	In BEYOND THE NIGHT, bestselling novelist Pat Conroy wrote Wayne Greenhaw has written a remembrance of extraordinary tenderness that captures all the awe and strange-ness of being a boy in the South. It seems part tall-tale, front-porch reminiscence, ghost story, and family saga combined -- all the stuff the South does better than anywhere else. After reading BEYOND THE NIGHT: A Remembrance, Harper Lee stated it blends the New Age with the age-old in a lyrical celebration of all life. and Winston Groom, author of FORREST GUMP, wrote that NIGHT is a lovely, loving, bittersweet tribute to the glory of youth. BEYOND THE NIGHT is small in size but huge in heart. It is a story that resonates long after the pages have been read.
In KING OF COUNTRY, a novel that traces country music singer Bobby Lee Butler's roots back to rural south Alabama, where he was a friend of Hank Williams, was a booming saga of a life filled with love, music, sex, drugs and alcohol. A boy from dirt-poor beginnings, Bobby Lee has a gift for music. Given an old guitar, his fingers soon summoned forth the music. His youthful voice shapes itself to the spirituals and gospel songs his mother loves, and when she¹s not around, to the blues and boogie tunes that are in his blood. Filled with tragic love, heartfelt renderings of bright lights and country music, the once-and-future King of Country stages a comeback after falling to the depths of depravity. It is a tale of a triumphant return from those depths. William Cobb, author of WALK THROUGH FIRE, wrote, Wayne Greenhaw has for years been one of our greatest treasures. And now comes KING OF COUNTRY, a big, totally authentic and immensely satisfying novel. Nobody knows rural Alabama and its people -- what they wear, what they eat, what they say and what they dream -- as well as Wayne Greenhaw. And that's what makes his newest novel such a truly compelling and entertaining read!
Wayne Greenhaw, the journalist, immersed himself in research, interviewed many people of authority and knowledge, when he wrote FLYING HIGH: INSIDE BIG-TIME DRUG SMUGGLING. From the investigators working for the Drug Enforcement Administration in Washington to the multimillion-dollar organization called The Company that formed in the rear room of a pizza parlor in a small southern Illinois town to smuggle drugs from South America into mid-United States, Greenhaw tackled a huge subject and wrote about it with the insight of an insider. FLYING HIGH tells the intimate stories of men and women caught up in the drug trade, transporting illegal drugs by airplane from the Guajira peninsula of Colombia into southern and midwestern U.S., distributing it into the large cities as it spreads across the country. The one-legged pilot who could not get a job flying legitimate commercial airlines flies big planes for The Company. And finally, jealousy and greed act together to topple the empire.
In ELEPHANTS IN THE COTTONFIELDS: Ronald Reagan and the New Republican South, the journalist predicts the emergence of the Republican Party in Dixie. He tells the history of the party from its beginnings shortly before the election of Abraham Lincoln through the days when Goldwater swept the South in the early 1960s. Greenhaw was the first to profile the rambunctious rebel-rouser Harvey Lee Atwater, who later guided George Herbert Walker Bush to the presidency. Greenhaw outlined the new religious right and its affect on Republican politics in the South. He profiled newcomers Trent Lott and Carroll Campbell, along with veterans Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond. William Bradford Huie, author of THE KLANSMAN and THE EXECUTION OF PRIVATE SLOVIK, wrote, "Wayne Greenhaw's ELEPHANTS IN THE COTTONFIELDS is one of the best books written about Southern politics. His gallery of political rogues is fascinating."
	TOMBIGBEE and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction published in national magazines and literary quarterlies from THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, QUINTO, SOUTHERN VOICES, ALABAMA, POSSUM REVIEW, and COMMENT. All of the stories are set in Alabama, from rural north Tuscaloosa County to the downtown streets of Birmingham.
For ALABAMA: Portrait of a State, published in January of 1998 by Black Belt Press. Greenhaw wrote the history of tourism in the state with photographs by Dan Brothers, former editor of ALABAMA OUTDOORS, the magazine for the State Department of Conservation. Greenhaw describes the first travelers who came to Alabama, the first taverns and the way entertainment and culture progressed through the centuries.
	ALABAMA ON MY MIND is a collection of Greenhaw's journalism about his home state from a recollection of meeting Governor James E. Big Jim Folsom on Main Street in Northport to traveling with Governor George C. Wallace and his wife, Governor-to-be Lurleen B. Wallace. In articles published on the Op-Ed Page of THE NEW YORK TIMES Greenhaw remembers conversations with his grandfather and tells about a ghost he encountered in an antebellum mansion in Montgomery.
WATCH OUT FOR GEORGE WALLACE is an in-depth biography of the man who changed politics in America. Greenhaw shows Wallace as a demagogue who used racism to catapult himself into the national spotlight in the 1960s. Standing in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama was a diabolical and cynical use of racism to win headlines. Playing to the emotional turmoil of the Alabama white voters, Wallace became the champion of racists movements which he used in his third-party campaign for president in 1968. But that same stance hurt his chances on a national stage in 1972 when he was shot by an assassin¹s bullets while campaigning for president on the Democratic ticket.
Greenhaw was the first journalist to write about Lieutenant William Calley and the My Lai massacre. Published on page one of THE ALABAMA JOURNAL and recounted by the reporter in THE MAKING OF A HERO, it tells the behind-the-scenes details of one of the most important stories from the Vietnam War. Greenhaw shows that the true hero at May Lai that fateful day was not Calley or the troops under him but a young warrant officer who flew a helicopter and rescued numerous old people and babies from the atrocity.
	Greenhaw wrote his first novel, THE GOLFER, when he was twenty-seven years old. The novel, praised by numerous reviews around the U.S., was published in 1968 by J.B. Lippincott. It sold through three printings. Movie actor Steve McQueen optioned the film rights, which he kept for three nine-month cycles. THE GOLFER was published in Japan, where it became at very good seller.

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