Jerry Elijah Brown, a professor of journalism at Auburn University, was raised on a farm in Clarke County, Alabama. He is descended from South Carolina and Georgia pioneers who passed over the Federal Road. Brown holds a master’s degree in creative writing from Hollins College and a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt. He has edited an anthology of Alabama writings entitled Clearings in the Thicket: An Alabama Humanities Reader (Mercer University Press, 1985) and is coauthor with H. D. Southerland, Jr., of The Federal Road through Georgia, the Creek Nation, and Alabama, published in 1989 by the University of Alabama Press.
Jerry Elijah Brown‘s Featured Articles:
- The Federal Road: Tourists in the Creek Nation (Issue 22)
