Biography;

Writer; journalist; businessman.  Born December 17, 1943, Coffeeville.  Education: Georgia State University.  Served in the U.S.Army, Vietnam.  Worked in sales and marketing for Chanel, Inc., for 26 years; retired 2003.  Full-time writer after 2003.  Writes features and a column for the Monticello (Georgia) News.  Selected the Georgia Author of the Year in Young Adult Fiction in 2009, 2011, and 2012; received the first Yerby Award, 2013. Yellow Watermelon was named to the inaugural list of “25 Books Every Young Georgian Should Read” by the Georgia Center for the Book.

Sources;

NewSouth Books website; Ted Dunagan website; Contemporary authors online.

Publications:

Salvation of Miss Lucretia. NewSouth, 2014.

Secret of the Saltifa.  NewSouth, 2010.

Trouble on the Tombigbee.  NewSouth, 2011.

Yellow Watermelon. NewSouth, 2007.