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Robert Inman
He is the author of four novels and he has written screenplays for six motion pictures for television, two of which have been “Hallmark Hall of Fame” presentations. His script for The Summer of Ben Tyler, a Hallmark production, won the Writers’ Guild of America Award as the best original television screenplay of 1997. His other Hallmark feature was Home Fires Burning, a 1989 adaptation of his novel. Inman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of The University of Alabama with Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees. He is a member of the Authors Guild, Writers Guild of America, Dramatists Guild, PEN American Center, North Carolina Writers Conference, North Carolina Writers Network, and Alabama Writers Forum. Inman and his wife, Paulette, live in Charlotte and Boone, North Carolina. They have two daughters: Mrs. Larkin Ferris of Boone, and Mrs. Lee Farabaugh of Birmingham, Alabama.
Books by Robert Inman Captain Saturday (2002) Christmas Bus (2003) Coming Home (2000) Dairy Queen Days (1997) Home Fires Burning (1987) Old Dogs and Children (1991)
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Praise for Robert Inman “A writer of ardent and prolific imagination. . . . Inman’s sense of place is palpable.” “Robert Inman [writes] with humor, compassion, and a sense of baffling sadness. . . . A storyteller perched between the Old South and the New.”
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Novelist, screenwriter, and playwright Robert Inman is a native of Elba, Alabama, where he began his writing career in junior high school with his hometown weekly newspaper. He left a 31-year career in journalism in June 1996 to devote full time to writing.