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John Egerton
John Egerton was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1935. He grew up in Kentucky and has been living in Nashville, Tennessee, for over twenty-five years. He has produced five major books, including Generations which won the Weatherford Award in 1983 and the Lillian Smith Award in 1984.
Books by John Egerton Ali Dubyiah and the Forty Thieves (2006) The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America Cornbread Nation Generations: An American Family A Mind to Stay Here: Profiles from the South Nashville: An American Self Portrait Nashville: The Faces of Two Centuries Promise of Progress: Memphis School Desegregation, 1972-1973 Radnor Lake: Nashville's Waldon Shades of Gray Side Orders Soutbern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History Speak Now Against the Day Visions of Utopia
Links Click here to read the transcript of the speech about John Egerton when he won the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Foodways Alliance: http://www.southernfoodways.com/hall_of_fame/lifetime/lifetime_awards_egerton.html Click here to view and interview with John Egerton: http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2006/egerton/la.htm. |
John Egerton has been a “professional South-watcher” for half a century. Beginning in high school in the 1950s, through two years in the U.S. Army, five years earning two college degrees, five more as a college news bureau reporter, six as a magazine writer, and for the past thirty-five years as an independent journalist and author, he has seldom strayed far from his life’s work: following the social and cultural, political and economic trends that forever have made the American South the unique place that it is, for better and worse.