Frye Gaillard is writer-in-residence at the University of South Alabama and the author of more than twenty books, including Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America, which won the Lillian Smith Award for nonfiction, and The Books That Mattered, published by NewSouth Books. Gaillard has also received the Clarence Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year Award. He lives just south of Mobile with his wife, Nancy.
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