Wayne Flynt has lived in and shared his lover’s quarrel with Alabama for most of his years. He has lived in Sheffield, Gadsden, Anniston, Birmingham, Dothan, and Auburn, and taught at Samford University for 12 years and Auburn University for 28. He also was Eudora Welty Visiting Scholar at Millsap College. His 6,000 students included 68 MA and PhD graduates. He served as president of the Alabama and Southern Historical associations, received numerous awards for his 15 books, and was elected to the Alabama Academy of Honor. His most cherished awards were the Hugo Black Award (University of Alabama), the C. Vann Woodward/John Hope Franklin Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the Governor’s Award for the Arts. He was visiting professor in Hong Kong and lectured abroad in the United Kingdom, Austria, Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and the People’s Republic of China.
Wayne Flynt’s Featured Articles:
- Mary Ward Brown: A Writer’s Life (Issue 142)
- Truman Capote, Monroeville’s Other Muse (Issue 113)
- Pattie Ruffner Jacobs and the Transformation of Women’s Rights (Issue 109)
- Universal Values: The Enduring Legacy of To Kill a Mockingbird (Issue 97)
- Taxes, Taxes, Taxes: The History of a Problem (Issue 24)
