Ted M. Dunagan was born in 1943 in rural southwestern Alabama. He attended Georgia State University, and served for three years in the Army as a member of the 101st Airborne Division and Special Forces Training Group. Dunagan is now retired after a career in the cosmetics and fragrance industry. He writes features and columns for The Monticello News in Monticello, Georgia, where he lives with his wife. Dunagan was named Georgia Author of the Year 2009 in the Young Adult category for his debut novel A Yellow Watermelon, which was named one of the 25 Books Every Young Georgian Should Read by the Georgia Center for the Book.
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