{"id":1282,"date":"2016-04-19T10:53:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T17:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2018-05-24T09:28:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T16:28:13","slug":"hemphill-paul-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1282","title":{"rendered":"HEMPHILL, PAUL, 1936-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sportswriter; novelist. \u00a0Born– February 18, 1936, Birmingham. Parents– Paul and Velma Rebecca (Nelson) Hemphill. Married– Susan Milliage Olive, September 23, 1961. Children– Three. Married Susan Farran Percy, 1977. Children–one.\u00a0 Education– Auburn University, B.A., 1959; Nieman Fellowship to Harvard, 1968-1969. Alabama Air National Guard, on active duty, serving in France, 1961-1962. Sportswriter for newspapers in Birmingham and Augusta, Georgia, 1964-1969; columnist for the Atlanta Journal, 1965-69.\u00a0 Writer-in-residence at several colleges. Free-lance writer after 1969. Visiting lecturer, University of Georgia, 1973. Literary Achievement award, Georgia Writers Association, 1970; Distinguished Achievement by Alumni award, Auburn University, 1985. Died July 11, 2009.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online; Auburn Alumnews, May 1985; obituary<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ballad of Little River:\u00a0 A Tale of Race and Restless Youth in the Rural South.\u00a0 Free Press, 2000.<\/p>\n

The Good Old Boys. New York; Simon & Schuster, 1974.<\/p>\n

The Heart of the Game:\u00a0 The Education of a Minor League Ballplayer.\u00a0 Simon and Schuster, 1996.<\/p>\n

King of the Road. Boston; Houghton Mifflin Co., 1989.<\/p>\n

Leaving Birmingham: Notes of a Native Son.\u00a0 Viking, 1993.<\/p>\n

Long Gone; a Novel. New York; Viking Press, 1979.<\/p>\n

Lost in the Lights: Sports, Dreams, and Life.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2003.<\/p>\n

Lovesick Blues:\u00a0 The Life of Hank Williams.\u00a0 Viking, 2005.<\/p>\n

Me and the Boy. New York; Macmillan, 1986.<\/p>\n

The Nashville Sound; Bright Lights and Country Music. New York; Simon & Schuster, 1970.<\/p>\n

The Sixkiller Chronicles. New York; Macmillan, 1985.<\/p>\n

A Tiger Walk through History: The Complete Story of Auburn Football…. University of Alabama Press, 2008.<\/p>\n

Too Old to Cry. New York; Viking, 1981.<\/p>\n

Wheels:\u00a0 A Season on\u00a0 NASCAR’S Winston Cup Circuit.\u00a0 Simon and Schuster, 1997.<\/p>\n

Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mayor; Notes on the Sixties. New York; Simon & Schuster, 1971.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

A collection of the papers of Paul Hemphill is held by the Special Collections Department at the Ralph Brown Draughon Library at Auburn University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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